1. What am I ? I AM ARE DARK TYPE ANIMAL I LIVE IN THE DARK I COME OUT IN THE DARK I SLEEP IN THE LIGHT I AM BOTH MEAT AND PLANT EATERS I HAVE WINGS BUT MY BODYS LIKE A RAT ?????

5. YES I AM A BAT!!!

6. BY CHENCHEN ZHAO

7. DID YOU KNOW ? THAT MAMMALS CAN GLIDE THROUGH THE AIR BUT BATS ARE THE ONLY MAMMALS CAPABLE OF POWERED FLIGHT USING THEIR FLAPPING WINGS .

8. THE VAMPIRE BAT IS NAMED AFTER THE BLOOD DRINKING BATS OF THE FAMILY DESMODONTIDAE . AS MAMMALS THEY ARE WARM BLOODED, AS BAT’S THEY USE THERE NOSE, EYES, FEET, HANDS, AND WINGS THE MOST.

9. BAT’S USE THERE NOSE TO FIND AND IDENTIFY CERTAIN FOOD AND TO RECOGNIZE ROOST, MATES, AND YOUNG. NECTAR SEEKING BATS’S GATHER POLLEN IN THEIR SHOUT, AND BY GOING FROM FLOWER TO FLOWER HELP CREATE NEW PLANT. FRUIT EATING BATS CAN FIND THEIR FOOD BY THE SMALL OF RIPING FRUIT

10. MOST PEOPLE SAY BATS ARE BLIND BUT BATS ARE NOT BLIND, FOR EXAMPLE FLYING FOX BAT HAVE A VERY GOOD EYE SIGHT AND THEY USE THEIR EYES ALONG WITH THEIR EXCELLENT OF SMELL TO HELP FIND FOOD IN DARK.MOSTLY SEE OBJECTS ONLY ON BLACK AND WHITE BUT COLOR VISION IS KNOW TO EXIST IN SOME OLD WORD FRUIT BATS.

11. BATS HAVE FEET BUT IT’S NOT USE TO WALK BUT IS ABLE TO HANG UPSIDE DOWN IN THEIR ROOTS

12. Bats fly by using there hands and wings While the wings are flipping bats can go Up or down by moving the membrane Between the body and fifth finger, this is Called “lift". Bats move forward (called thrust) By changing the shape of membrane between the Second and fifth fingers.

13. SOME BATS LIVE TOGETHER IN BIG CLOMIES DURING THE WINTER.SEVERAL MALES AND FEMALES MAY HUDDLE FOR WARMTH, HANG UPSIDE DOWN IN A CAVE OR OLD BUILDINGS.IN THE SUMMER ONLY FEMALES (GIRLS) LIVE TOGETHER IN A MOTHER COLONY ON UP TO SEVERAL BATS. EACH MOTHER BAT HAVE 1 OR 2 BABIES IN EARLY SUMMER.

14. Almost all bats eat insects. In fact one brown Bat can eat up to 3000 mosquitoes each night So bats definitely benefit people. and all bats Eat fruits, mouse rat and other small animals. A vampire bat drink blood Out of a cow, sheep, horse, And birds, they can’t live Without blood for two days

15. BATS CAN BE FOUND IN EVERY PART OF THE WORLD EXCEPT WHERE IT IS REALLY COLD AND REALLY DRY AND SOME REMOTE ISLANDS. THEY LIVE ON ALL CONTINENTS EXCEPT ANTARCTICA.YOU CAN FIND MORE SPECIES OF BATS (DIFFERENT KINDS). WHERE THE WEATHER IS NICE AND WARM. THOSE WARM SPOTS ARE NEAR THE EQUATOR AND ARE CALLED THE “TROPICS”AND “RAIN FORESTS”.

16. Just remember NEVER HANDLE A WILD BAT !!!!!! They bite and can give you rabies. If you are bitten By a bat, you’ll have to get this disease. The best Thing to do is NEVER touch, feed or approach a Wild animal.

17. please Click on The link!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Va9ull44yw

18. Bats are an important Animal and it is really Helpful to humans.

20. Fruit-eating bats prefer Ripe, As they fly they drop Seeds which can grow on To new trees……..

21. Bats that like pollen, by Going from flower to Flower, bats help make New plants….

22. Eating bats use vision Echolocation and sounds From their prey to help Locates their food

23. This is a bats skull

24. FISHING BATS GRAB LITTLE OUT OF THE WATER WITH THEIR CLAWS . ECHOLOCATION IS TO FIND THIS FOOD…..

25. THE LITTLE BROWN BAT CAN EAT UP TO 1,200 A NIGHT FLYING INSECTS IN JUST ONE HOUR. THIS HELPS ALL OF US……….

26. BOOKS : BATS PHIL RICHARDSON Encyclopedia of animals FLYING BOXES BAT BY:TAMARA l. Britton BY:KAREN MCGHEE ANIMALS WORLD BY:GARRY FLEMING VAMPIRE BATS BY:TAMARA l. Britton

27. WEBSITES: BATS4KIDS.ORG WWW.BATRESCUE.ORG/BATFACT.HTML WWW.KIDZONEWS/ANIMALS/BATS/FACTS HTM