Bats Knows The Speed Of Sound From Birth And Can Tell Position In Time Not Space

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Most of us are aware of the fact that bats uses what is called ''echolocation" to navigate and hunt their preys, but there appears to be more to this echolocation than was originally thought. It was recently discovered by scientists at the Tel Aviv University, Israel that bats already knew the speed of sound from birth and that unlike humans who map the world through units of distance, bats map the world through units of time. If we humans for example, observes an insect to be at a distance of one and a half meters (1.5m) from a particular bat, then the bat would observe that insect to be at a distance of approximately nine milliseconds (hint: t = 2v/s , where t = time, v = speed of sound at normal condition and s = distance).

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