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What is echolocation?

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Are bats really blind? Not exactly. Besides their eyes, bats use a special process called echolocation to navigate their environment. SciToons explains how bats "see" the world around them as they look for prey in the dark.

How do bats differentiate relevant information from signal clutter using echolocation?

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