Many think that bats are blind when in fact they can see quite well. Their remarkable sense of hearing makes them incredible night hunters. These sounds, which come from the throat or nose, reflect off objects and return to the bat's ears as echoes. Listening to the echoes, bats can then detect the exact location of their favourite food - flying insects. Even blindfolded little brown bats can find their way home.
Bats are good creatures to have around.
They help farmers by eating insect pests in crops, thus reducing the need to use harmful pesticides that damage our environment. Around the world, bats also pollinate flowers and disperse seeds of many forest trees, shrubs, and tropical plants. Therefore bats will help to preserve our rainforests and maintain the earth's endangered ecosystems. Studying the unusual lives of bats has revealed information useful to people. In some areas guano is used as nitrogen rich, organic fertilizer.