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How does a bat swoop through pitch darkness without crashing?

On a moonless night a bat pours out of a cave and races between the trees, twisting round branches it cannot possibly see. It never bumps a thing, and it snatches tiny insects clean out of the air. Its eyes are almost useless in that darkness. So how does a bat find its way?

The dark silhouette of a bat flying across the night sky beside a crescent moon.
Photo: Phadke09 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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