Are Bats Good at Echolocation, or Do They Just Heal Fast?
My wife told me an amazing fact she had picked up from a Russian account on TikTok. For years, the story goes, scientists believed bats were extremely good at echolocation. That was how they flew around dark caves without constantly hitting the walls. Then one scientist X-rayed a batch of bats and found that many of them carried multiple healed fractures. Bats were not brilliant navigators after all. They were terrible at echolocation, crashing into things and breaking bones the whole time. They were just extraordinarily good at healing. ...