No, bats are not blind. The common saying and belief that bats are not seeing where they're headed while flying around because it seems they are always haphazardly changing courses in their hunt ...

Ruben Graham-Morris, a blind eight-year-old boy ... since the technique he teaches is similar to how bats get around. Ruben's mother said that means her son must be a batboy.

Despite the old “blind as a bat” axiom these and other flying foxes have excellent senses of both sight and smell, which enable them to find plenty of their favored foods. Little red flying ...