The bat conservationists can talk eco-tourism and agricultural benefit all they want, but many of these children have a simple, practical reason for wanting to protect Marcelo. Why, he is asked. Because they eat mosquitoes, he says, and mosquitoes eat me. Return to the beginning of this story. The Bat Vault Test Your Bat IQ BCI Bat Myth.
Bats are blind.
Using high frequency sounds alone, bats can navigate, detect obstacles as fine as a human hair, and can see everything but color on the darkest night. The payoff is the view, and it is an astounding one.