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The first investigation of the sensitiveness of the skin of bats, so far as the writer has been able to ascertain, was the well known experiment of Spallanzani in 1798. This investigator blinded bats, and observed that they avoided with accuracy not only large obstacles placed in their way, but even silken threads stretched in such a manner as to leave only sufficient space for the bats to pass between with their wings expanded.
In 1796 Cuvier called attention to the exquisite sense of touch in the membranous skin covering the wings and ears. Upon examination he found the wings to be supplied with an enormous number of nerves. He inferred that during flight the blinded bat, on approaching the object, sets up air currents, which, reacting on the sensitive patagium and ears, enable the animal to perceive and to avoid the obstacle.
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