| Bats always
turn left when they leave their caves.
Frog-eating bats identify edible
frogs from poisonous ones by listening to the mating calls
of male frogs. Frogs counter this by hiding and using
short, difficult to locate calls.
Bats sleep during the day and
feed at night. The place that bats sleep in is called
the "roost."
Bats emit ultrasonic sounds
to communicate with each other.
Bats always turn left when
exiting a cave.
African heart-nosed bats can
have such a keen sense of sound that they can hear the
footsteps of a beetle walking on sand from six feet away.
Giant flying foxes, which are
a type of bat, that live in Indonesia have wingspans of
nearly six feet.
Vampire bat saliva has been
responsible for many advances in research into stroke
recovery.
The flying fox of Africa has
a wingspan of fifty inches!
The flying fox is a bat with
a wing span over five feet.
The world's smallest mammal
is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a
penny. |