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  2. Blind as a Bat - Wikipedia

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    Blind as a Bat may refer to: "Blind as a Bat" (Batman: The Animated Series), a 1993 episode of Batman: The Animated Series "Blind as a Bat" (song), written by Desmond Child and James Michael in the 2006 Meat Loaf album Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose "Blind as a Bat", a song by Simon Townshend from his album Animal Soup

  3. Bat - Wikipedia

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    Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera (/ k aɪ ˈ r ɒ p t ər ə /). [a] With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most birds, flying with their very long spread-out digits covered with a thin membrane or patagium.

  4. Pteropus - Wikipedia

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    Pteropus (suborder Yinpterochiroptera) is a genus of megabats which are among the largest bats in the world. They are commonly known as fruit bats or flying foxes, among other colloquial names. They live in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, East Africa, and some oceanic islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. [3]

  5. Human echolocation - Wikipedia

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    Human echolocation is the ability of humans to detect objects in their environment by sensing echoes from those objects, by actively creating sounds: for example, by tapping their canes, lightly stomping their foot, snapping their fingers, or making clicking noises with their mouths.

  6. Glossary of baseball terms - Wikipedia

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    A bat's diameter is larger at one end (the barrel-end) than at the other (the handle). The bottom end of the handle is the knob. A batter generally tries to strike the ball in the sweet spot near the middle of the barrel-end of the bat, sometimes referred to as the fat part of the bat or the meat end of the bat.

  7. Subjective character of experience - Wikipedia

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    Nagel argues that, because bats are apparently conscious mammals with a way of perceiving their environment entirely different from that of human beings, it is impossible to speak of "what is it like to be a bat for the bat" or, while the example of the bat is particularly illustrative, any conscious species, as each organism has a unique point ...

  8. Big brown bat - Wikipedia

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    The big brown bat belongs to the serotinus group, which is defined by having a large, elongate skull, flat braincase, and a long snout. [26] In a study of the evolutionary relationships of some Eptesicus species, the big brown bat was most closely related to the two other species from the Americas: the Argentine brown bat and the diminutive ...

  9. Troglofauna - Wikipedia

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    The microscopic cave snail Zospeum tholussum, found at depths of 743 to 1,392 m (2,438 to 4,567 ft) in the Lukina Jama–Trojama cave system of Croatia, is completely blind with a translucent shell Troglofauna are small cave -dwelling animals that have adapted to their dark surroundings.