Bats

Vocabulary • Membranes – is a thin, pliable layer of tissue

covering surfaces or separating or connecting regions, structures, or organs of an animal.• Mammals – give live birth, have hair or fur,

vertebrates, feed young with milk. • Nocturnal – means that the animals are active

at night. • Hibernate – means sleep during the winter.• Echolocation – a method used to locate

objects at night.

Diagram of Bats

Bat Facts • Bats are the only mammal that

can actually fly.  Some bats can fly up to forth miles an hour.

• There are more then nine hundred types of bats. 

• Some Bats benefit people in several ways.  Some feed on harmful insects while others pollinate flowers as they fly from flower to flower.  seeds dropped by fruit bats may sprout into plants.

• Other bats eat fruit, fish and even bats!

• Bats can live for up to 30 years. • Bats have a wing span up to six

feet.

More Bat Facts• Bats do not build nests.  In winter, when insects are

scarce, bats hibernate in cool parts of buildings, caves and hollow trees.  They get into these places by creeping into cracks and crannies as small as one quarter of an inch.

• Bats rarely live in belfries.  They prefer somewhere quiet, not drafty and free from cobwebs.

• Bats hang upside down from their feet.• During the winter  some bats migrate to warmer

climates, while others hibernate for months.  When a bat hibernates its body temperature drops, its heartbeat and breathing slows too.  Like the bear, a hibernating bat lives off the fat of its body.

Micro Bats

• Micro bats use echolocation.• Micro bats eat insects.• Larger micro bats hunt fish, birds,

frogs, and lizards.

Mega Bats • Also known as Fruit

bats. • They have large eyes. • They don’t use the

echolocation for food. • Mega bats eat fruit,

and nectar from flowers. • They have an excellent

sense of smell.

Echolocation

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