Synopsis
Echo-location is just one part of the overall armoury of a bat on the hunt: it also has stealth mode.
- Programme: The Wonder of Animals
- Episode: Bats
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2014
- Biology | Ecology | Adaptations, interdependence and competition | Adaptations
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