Nocturnal Animals: Bats By Tammy Verstrate Nocturnal Animals

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Nocturnal Animals Bats

• By Tammy Verstrate

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Nocturnal Animals Stay Active at Night
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Crickets and Snakes

• Are nocturnal

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Raccoons and Owls

• Are nocturnal

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Nocturnal Song

• Learn a song about nocturnal animals

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Bats are nocturnal

• Bats fly and stay active at night

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Bats

• Bats have fur and big teeth

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Bats are mammals

• Baby bats drink milk from their mothers.

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Baby bats

• The babies of insect eating bats are born
  hairless, with their eyes closed.

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Where Do Bats Live?

• Bats are found in caves.
• Bats homes are called roosts.

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Bats Home

• Bats are also found in hollow trees, woodpecker
  holes, tree tops, buildings, castles and
  churches.

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Bats like to stay together

• A group of bats is called a colony

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How do bats sleep?

• During the day bats sleep hanging upside down,
  and at night they come out to feed.

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Bat wings

• Bat wings are made of two thin layers of skin
  stretched over the bat's arm and fingers. 

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Bats have five fingers

• Bats have a thumb and four fingers, just like
  people.

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Long fingers!

• The bat's fingers are very long compared to its
  body.  If we had fingers like a bat, they would
  be longer than our legs!

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Bats Ears

• Bats have very good hearing.
• They use their ears for finding food and locating
  their babies.

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Bats with big ears

• Some insect eating bats have huge, sensitive
  ears for hearing moths, and beetles.

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Bats with tiny ears

• Fruit bats have tiny ears. They use their eyes
  and nose to find food.

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Should We Be Afraid of Bats?

• Many bats are truly very helpful to people.
• The little brown bat can eat up to 1,200 night
  flying insects in just one hour. This helps all
  of us.

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Nocturnal

•  Swoop and dive, little bat,
• Catch insects as you fly.
• Hurry, hurry, little bat,
• Back to your cave nearby.

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For More Information and Activities About Bats

• You can visit the kids zone
• And Enchanted learning

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Credits

• The information in this power point presentation
  was taken from the kids zone and enchanted
  learning.