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Bat detector

A bat detector is a magical device that helps you hear the secret sounds of bats! You see, bats make high-pitched noises called ultrasonic sounds that our human ears cannot hear, but bat detectors can catch them!

The bat detector has a special microphone that picks up the ultrasonic sounds and translates them into lower-pitched sounds that we can hear. These sounds are called "bat calls." So when a bat flies by, the bat detector can tell us which type of bat it is by the sound it makes.

But that's not all, the bat detector also has a little screen that shows us a picture of the bat's call pattern. This is helpful because every bat species has a unique call pattern, so we can identify the type of bat just by looking at its call pattern on the screen!

This is super cool because bats are pretty stealthy, and you may not even see them flying around at night. The bat detector lets us know that they're out there, and we can listen to their secret world of sound.
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