Bats are interesting animals. We know that certain species of bats can be used in mosquito prevention, as they eat mosquitoes. This type of prevention is environmentally safe since it is completely natural. There are also many stories that originate from rumors and facts about bats. Because of this interesting-facts to know about the night.
Bat fingers
So don’t worry. Bat fingers are not a type of food like chicken fingers. But bats have fingers. These fingers are found on the wings of a bat. Bats, like humans, have four fingers and a thumb. But these are in each pair of wings. He covers his fingers with skin, and makes feathers with his thumb. Because of this, things can be held at night.
Come Fight Me
Bats have come to associate with Count Dracula and vampires. It is often thought that a vampire will turn into a bat. This is because people thought that bats suck blood and vampires suck blood. However, no bats suck blood. Some are just bats vampires if the word “vampire” means “drinks blood”. Vampire bats create a wound with their teeth and then lick up the animal’s blood. A bat drinks about an ounce of blood every night. They will also drink blood only from larger animals, such as horses and sheep.
This is one crowded bed
If you imagine five bears in a crowded bed (of course with one little one telling the others to “roll over”), I’ve never seen bats while they sleep! Bats sleep in colonies and thousands of them sleep in caves. The largest bat colony is in Bracken Cave, TX. Up to 20 million can be found there!
Turmoil like a bat
People often say they are “blind as a bat.” But it doesn’t work like that. bat s actually a good line of sight. It’s just hard to see because most people do their hunting at night. While humans do not hear bat noises, it is possible to make noise. They use echolocation to help guide them. They emit a sound that bounces. Just imagine the balls of tennis ball running up the wall, and then all the high-pitched bangs of the projection!
Swimming Bats
Bats are not used to swimming. However, they observed people swimming. The interesting part is that when bats fly, they are more like swimmers. They do not flap their feathers like birds. they move their wings as they drag themselves through the air like humans do with a butterfly while swimming.
Sources:
Smithsonian Encyclopedia: Bat Facts. (n.d.). Smithsonian. Retrieved May 13, 2011, from http://www.si.edu/EncyclopediaKidZone Bats. (n.d.). Kidzone – Fun Things for Kids!. Retrieved May 13, 2011, from http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/bats/facts.htm
