Big Brown Bats

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Big Brown Bats

• Bailee, Roland, Meyhan, Miquel
• Mrs. Nagelhouts Third Grade Class
• Spring 2009

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Table of Contents

• Bats Food1
• Bats Characteristics...2
• Big Brown Bat Habitats..3
• Baby Bats.4

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Bats Eat Bugs!

• Big brown bats eat a ton of insects like gnats,
  mosquitoes or flies.

• Big brown Bats use echolocation (where bats send
  sounds that bounce back) to find and chase
  insects.

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Small Big Bats!

• What's the size of a Big Brown Bat? A Big Brown
  Bats wings (tip to tip) are 30 to 33 cm. It's
  the size of a preschooler's arm. Big Brown Bat's
  wings are mostly black. The oldest Big Brown Bat
  was a male recorded at 19 years old.

• The Bats wing is actually the bats hand with
  skin stretched between the fingers.

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Habitats for Big Brown Bats

• What kind of habitats do big brown bats live in
  ? Big brown bats live in cities, towns and farms.
  In the summer they make homes behind loose
  boards, attics and lots of other places . These
  bats fall asleep in the winter in sewers and our
  house walls.

• A big brown bat in his or her tree

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These are How Baby Bats Are Born

• Baby bats are born where their mothers
  live in a nursery . After theyre born the pups
  squeak and open their eyes. For two weeks the
  pups stay in the nest with their mother. At three
  weeks the pups learn how to fly.

• The mom is holding the babies on her back

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Glossary

• Gnats-A small insect with two wings that bites.
• Habitat-Where the animal lives or grows up.
• Nursery-A place where babies are cared for.
• Pup-A young bat thats a pup for 9 weeks.

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Bibliography

• Many of the facts and pictures for this digital
  book were found on the following web sites
• kids.yahoo.com/animals, animaldiversity.ummz.umich
  .edu, www.nationalgeographic.com/animals,
  http//www.naturalia.org/, http//library.thinkque
  st.org/11234/index.html