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                        Bats 
                        feed at night. Most locate their food and navigate by 
                        uttering a continuous series of ultrasonic cries that 
                        return as echoes when the cries hit solid objects. In 
                        the daytime they seek shelter in a wide variety of places: 
                        caves, mines, buildings, rock crevices, under tree bark 
                        and amid foliage. When resting and hibernating, bats can 
                        lower their body temperature to nearly match the environment 
                        and thus lower their motabolism and conserve energy.  
                         
                        Bats are an important part of the natural system. They 
                        help control nocturnal insects, some of which are agricultural 
                        pests or annoying to man. Many forms of cave life depend 
                        upon the nutrients brought in by bats and released from 
                        their guano (feces). And bats have contributed much to 
                        man's knowledge through scientific studies of their echolocation 
                        abilities, their biology and certain aspects of their 
                        physiology.  
                         
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