Archive for the 'Bats' Category
The largest bat in the world is the “flying fox” that lives in India, the Malay Peninsula, Australia and other tropical areas of the Pacific. It has a wingspread of more than four feet. Naturalists call it the flying fox because its little face is long-nosed and hairy and really looks a good deal like [...]
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In almost any part of the United States, when one sees a small bat fluttering through the air at dusk the chances are it is one of the two dozen or more kinds of little brown bats. It is our commonest small bat – it is only about three and a half inches long – [...]
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There are almost two thousand kinds of bats in the world and most of them are interesting, harmless creatures that feed on insects or fruits; some even sip the nectar of flowers. A few are carnivorous – there are fish-eating bats adept at scooping up small fish from the water. But the vampire bat of [...]
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