are bats good at hearing sound?
Answer Dear Min Jee Hong Thanks for your question. I have incorporated information about bats’ ears and how they hear sounds. I can answer one question straight away. Most bats are extremely good at hearing sound and show a great variety in the shapes of their ears. I apologise that some of the information is a bit repetitive, but I have tried to separate out information so that I have answered your questions and have tried to avoid other areas of knowledge. I have tried to simplify the information as much as possible, but some of it is very complicated. http://klingon.iupucs.iupui.edu/~bat/bat-paper.html gives general information about bats as well as information about echolocation. http://www.physicscentral.com/news/news-04-05.html and http://www.acoustics.org/press/147th/Mueller.html give details about bats’ ears and have diagrams of different types of ears. The ears are moulded into a highly optimised, sophisticated sonar antenna. Some ears are furrowed at the edges or are tall and
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