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Latina UniversityComputer Assisted Translation
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• Final Project
• The truth and fiction of Bats

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Brief summary of the article
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• Most of the people think that bats are the most
  disgusting animal of the world.
• they have a great diversity and an extraordinary
  behavior.
• We usually think of Dracula when we talk about
  Bats.
• The Mayans associated the bats with darkness
• In Greek mythology, bats were sacred animals for
  Persephone, who was daughter of Zeus and wife of
  Hades, sovereign of the world of dead.

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• In the Chinese mythology and for the European
  gypsies, they represent good luck and everlasting
  life.
• The origin and evolution of bats is uncertain
  because they are not represented in fossils.
• Bats rest upside-down
• There are almost a thousand of different species
  of bats in the world, divided in eighteen
  families.
• In Panama there have been found one hundred
  twenty different bats species
• In the entire Europe there are only thirty
  different species

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• Vocabulary

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• Murciélago vampiro
• Mayas
• Camazots
• Bichos malos
• Fósil
• Época del Eoceno
• Copa de los árboles
• Membrana
• Vuelo activo

• Vampire bat
• Mayans
• Mayan God of the dead
• Evil creatures
• Fossils
• Time of Eocene (60 million years back)
• Treestops
• Membrane
• Active flight

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• Endémicas
• Filostomídeos
• Guano
• Tonatia Silvicola

• Endemic
• Kind of bats that exists in Panama
• Bats dung
• Bat specie that thinks that the hollows in the
  termites nests are good houses.