I like to hang around upside down in dark caves all day. Though people say I am as blind as my name implies, I hunt insects in pitch darkness using sound alone. What am I?
A bat
Bats roost upside down, inspire the idiom 'blind as a bat', and use echolocation to fly and hunt.
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