Are Bats Blind? Episode 39
Nat Theo Nature Lessons Rooted in the Bible
Eryn Lynum
4.8 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever heard anyone say someone or something is “blind as a bat?” Are bats really blind? Discover these unique and fascinating flying mammals!
Here’s our trail map:
- Is a Bat A Bird?
- Why Do Bats Hang Upside Down?
- Are Bats Blind?
- What Is Echolocation?
- How Can We Send Out Signals To Hear From God?
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Scriptures Referenced in This Episode:
“But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.” Deuteronomy 4:29 (NIV)
“Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.” Jeremiah 33:3 (NIV)
“The eyes of the Lord watch over those who do right, and his ears are open to their prayers.” 1 Peter 3:12 (NLT)
“And we are confident that he hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases him. And since we know he hears us when we make our requests, we also know that he will give us what we ask for.” 1 John 5:14-15 (NLT)
Terms Learned in This Episode:
Diverse: Having a lot of differences and variety
Mammal: Group of animals that have hair or fur, are warm-blooded, have a backbone, (most) have live births, and feed their babies with milk from their bodies.
Nocturnal: Active at night. Normally sleep during the daylight hours and are awake at night, hunting when it is dark.
Chiroptera: “Hand-wing.” The order of mammals that is bats, with over 1,300 species of bats.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Have you downloaded the free coloring sheet for this lesson? |
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| 0:23.5 | at Aaron Linum.com slash club or at the link in our show notes. |
| 0:31.7 | Hello world. Wake me up to another good good morning time to go. |
| 0:43.9 | Are you ready to explore God's wild and wonderful world? |
| 0:46.6 | Welcome to the Nat Theo podcast. |
| 0:48.8 | I'm your host, Aaron Linum. |
| 0:52.6 | I'm a certified master naturalist, Bible teacher, and author. |
| 0:56.7 | And I am so excited to dive into God's written word, |
| 0:59.9 | the Bible, and his created world with you. |
| 1:20.2 | Have you ever been outside at dusk when the sun is setting and shadows are getting longer as night is coming? |
| 1:25.8 | And you look up into the sky and you notice creatures flying around. |
| 1:28.4 | Maybe at first you think they're birds. |
| 1:33.7 | But as you watch them, you notice that they are different from birds. |
| 1:36.9 | These are not birds at all. |
| 1:38.5 | They are bats. I am so excited to dive into the fascinating world of bats with you. Bats are incredibly diverse. Do you know what |
| 1:49.3 | diverse means? Diverse means having a lot of differences and variety. And this is definitely true for bats. |
| 1:59.4 | You see, there are bats that are as small as bumblebees. That's the case with the rightly named bumblebee bat. And there are bats that are as large as or even larger than hawks. There are bats that eat sweet nectar from flowers and bats that lick blood from other animals. |
| 2:22.1 | There are bats that live in caves and bats that make homes inside of bamboo stocks. |
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