But the cave is already something of a draw for tourists, and that may ultimately be what restores the colony to something like its size 20 years ago. Continue this story. Your Bat IQ BCI Photo Upper Left . Hector Almaguer holds up his drawing of Marcelo the bat. The sixth-grader at Francisco Cirilo School in northern Mexico is learning about the useful things bats can do.
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. A workbook about the bats of Mexico is used in the schools to help educate the Mexican children about the animals.