Jul 19 2008 06:19 pm
Posted by benjamin under Uncategorized
Bat Joke
A vampire bat came flapping in from a night of foraging, covered in fresh blood. He parked himself on the cave’s roof to get some sleep. Soon all the other bats smelled the blood and began hassling him about where he got it. He told them to shut up and let him get some sleep, but they persisted until he finally gave in. “OK, follow me.” He flew out of the cave with hundreds of bats behind him. Down through a valley they went, across a river and into a forest of trees. Finally he slowed down and all the other bats excitedly milled around him. “Do you see that tree over there?” “YES, YES, YES!!” the bats all screamed in a frenzy. “Well I didn’t!“
The biological concept in play here is that bats use Radar to interpret vision instead of having eyes like those we dissected in lab. The joke uses this concept correctly and arguably humorously.
GET IT! CAUSE IF BATS HAD EYES THEN THE MAIN CHARACTER IN THE JOKE WOULDN’T HAVE HIT THE TREE!
Yes, they “see” in dark using radar, but can avoid objects (such as trees) as well as find prey. But I do get the joke.
Dude, that is the FUNNIEST JOKE EVER!!! I wish I had some way of using echolocation, then I would’nt have to drain my battery by using my headlights at night. Did you know submarines operate underwater using the same principle? It’s called SONAR, short for Sound Navigation and Ranging. Submarines send out inaudible “pings” and wait for them to return, converting the data into a visual map of the seafloor below them.
Good joke! I think bats do use their vision to varying degrees, though.
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oh ben, ben, ben. that was the funniest joke i have heard in a long time. I liked it because all the bats thought that the one vampire bat was covered in blood because he was sucking blood from an animal. BUT HE WASN’T!!! he was actually covered in his own blood because he did not see the tree!!!