BATS

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BATS

• By Matthew Room 35 Grade 2

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• Bats are good hunters. When we bother a mom
  bat, she flies away from her babies. The babies
  cant get milk. A lot of babies is called a
  nursery. A bat makes a noise that bounces into
  an insect and it bounces back to the bat. This
  tells the bat where the bug is hiding.

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• A little brown bat can catch 150 insects in 15
  minutes. Bats sleep in the morning and have
  breakfast at night. Bats help farmers. Bats eat
  bugs that eat crops. Bats have hook claws to hang
  up side down.

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• Bats clean themselves with their claws. In China
  bats are considered good luck. The bats wings
  have long finger bones. Bats wings are like
  webbed hands. A flying bat can move its wings
  much like you can move your fingers.

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• The gray bat can gobble up 3000 insects in one
  night. Braken Cave in Texas is the home to 20
  million Mexican free-tailed bats. Together they
  munch 250 tons of insects every night. Vampire
  bats live in parts of Mexico and Central and
  South America.

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• A bats body parts are the tail, tail membrane,
  wing membrane, thumb, second finger, third
  finger, fourth finger, and the fifth finger.
  There are more then 980 bats in the world. Bats
  dont lay eggs. Each night a bat chomps half its
  own weight in bugs.

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Credits

• Zipping, Zapping, Zooming BATS
• By Ann Earle
• Pictures
• Slide 1 from book Zipping, Zapping, Zooming BATS
• Slide 2 drawn by Matthew
• Slide 3 from http//www.learner.org/jnorth/1997/c
  ritters/bat//
• Slide 4 drawn by Matthew
• Slide 5 from http//rville.k12.mo.us/cave/cavecrit
  ters1.htm
• Slide 6 None