Bats

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Bats

• By Janine Fernandez

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Table of Contents

• What are Bats?
• Description
• Habitat
• Food
• Behavior
• Babies and Young
• Interesting Facts
• Glossary

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Bats

• Bats are the only flying mammal. They help
  farmers because they eat the bugs that harm
  crops. Did you know that the little brown bat
  can eat 600 mosquitoes in an hour?

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Description

• Bats have 5 fingers on each wing. Bats have five
  toes. Bats have skin between their fingers that
  makes the wings. Their wings are thin, wet, and
  like tissues.
• Bats have big ears. Some are round, some are
  pointed.
• Bats have a tail.
• They have furry bodies.

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thumb
skull
elbow
fingers
5 toes
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Habitat

• Bats live in trees in woodsy places
• Bats live everywhere except very, very hot places
  and very cold places.
• Bats live on every continent except Antarctica.
• They live in caves.

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Food

• Bats eat different foods. It depends what kind
  of bat it is.
• Vampire bats drink a little bit of each animals
  blood.
• Fruit bats eat fruit.
• Some bats eat nectar and as they fly from flower
  to flower they help plants grow.
• The meat eaters use echolocation to help them
  find their prey.

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Behavior

• They help their young by making homes for their
  babies. So that means they help family.
• They find a place to live. That means they want
  to protect themselves and their family.
• They are really not blood suckers, but they do
  suck animals blood. They are really friendly
  creatures.

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Behavior
For echolocation the bats make a sound that
bounces off of the insect and the bat will know
where the insect is.
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Babies and Young

• Bats have one baby at a time. So after they have
  one baby bat they could get another one for
  another year.
• The mother bat teaches their young.
• They teach them how to fly.
• They teach them how to hunt for their prey.

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Interesting Facts

• They are mammals because bats have a tail and fur
  and every mammal has a tail and fur.
• People are mistaken about bats and have wrong
  ideas Bats are not trying to attack humans. They
  do not want to get in your hair. This bad
  information creates fears and problems.
• Bats are nocturnal animals.
• Some bats use something called echolocation to
  help them find things and communicate. Small
  bats use echolocation.

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More Interesting Facts

• The largest bats wingspan is 6 feet.
• Megabats do not use echolocation. They have
  great eyesight.
• The smallest bat weighs less than a penny.
• Microbats are small bats. They can fit in the
  palm of your hand.

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Glossary

• New words and definitions
• Mammal animal that has a tail, fur and warm
  blood. They have live babies. People are
  mammals.
• Echolocation-what bats use to find their prey.
  They bounce sound, hear the echo, and locate the
  prey.
• Prey-what the predator eats.
• Predator- what eats the prey