Fruit Bats
Animal's Body: size, color, type of covering and special body parts.
Fruit Bats bodies can be from 3 to 16 inches long. Their wing span can be up to 5 feet across. And they can weigh more than 2 pounds.
Fruit Bats have a brown body. They have black wings.
Fruit Bats have short and fuzzy hair on the front part of their head. The outer parts of their arms, legs and wing usually do not have hair or fur.
Their hands have a small claw. They use the claw to hold and rip open fruits.
Fruit Bats live in tropical areas around the world. The tropics are close to the equator. The equator is the hottest part of the earth. The countries they are found in are Pakistan, India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka.
They prefer to live in trees. They can also live in caves, barns and under bridges.
Bats do not build nests.
Fruit bats drink the juice of fruits such as mangos, bananas and figs.
Fruit bats sleep hanging upside down. They sleep during the day after a long night's hunt. At night, before hunting for food, they will look for water to drink.
When bats gets cold, they wrap themselves in their wings, tucking their heads, faces, and any other parts they can manage inside. Their breath will then keep them warm.
Bats fly to move from place to place.
There are 1,000 different kinds of bats.
Bats are not blind.
Bats are the only mammal that can fly.
Bats communicate and navigate using high-frequency sounds.
People are its enemy. We destroy the forests where it lives.
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To cite this page as a resource:
Fruit Bats, www.slpschools.org/aq, .
Fruit Bats, http://www.mnzoo.com/animals/tropics_trail/fbat_2.asp, 3-17-03, and Fruit Bats, www.whozoo.org, viewed 3-6-2007.
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