Question

Seeing a bat flying over the roof of her house, Babita asked her father following questions:
(a) What is this night flying bird?
(b) How does it see during night?
(c) What does it eat and how does it obtain its food?

Answer 1

(a) First of all, bat is not a type of bird. It belongs to the category of mammals. It has patagia in the forelimbs which functions as wings and helps in the flight of bat.

(b) Bat is an animal which does not require sharp vision to see during night. It depends on ecowaves which it sends to interpret an obstacle (ecolocation).

(c) Bats feed nocturnal insects (insects which fly in night). Bats detect these insects based on sound waves produced by them. It is also one of the ways of biologically controlling the population of these insects.