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little brown Bats flying nightmares

little brown Bats flying nightmares . Power Point by Rafferty. Table of contents. Introduction What Bats Look Like How Long They Live Where Bats Live What weather they live in Bat Food Prey and predators Behavior Reproduction Physiological adaptations

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little brown Bats flying nightmares

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  1. little brown Batsflying nightmares Power Point by Rafferty

  2. Table of contents • Introduction • What Bats Look Like • How Long They Live • Where Bats Live • What weather they live in • Bat Food • Prey and predators • Behavior • Reproduction • Physiological adaptations • Behavioral adaptations • Fun facts

  3. Introduction • The scientific name for a bat is chiropteran • They are in the mammal family • They are the only mammal that has sustained flight • There are 1,100 bat species • There are two types of bats: Mega bats and micro bats • Brown bats are micro bats

  4. What Little brown Bats Look Like • Their body and hair color are brown • They have big ears they can spread their wings 22/27cm they weigh 0.5 oz • they pick up sounds from far away but can not see in color • They have thumbs that help them climb and also to keep them clean • they have sharp teeth to eat their prey

  5. More of What Bats Look Like • They have four very long fingers that are in their wings • Their tail helps it catch its food because its tail is like a net • There are 782 species of micro bats • Their feet look like hands

  6. How Long They Live • They are not endangered • They normally live 6 or 7 years • But can live up to 15 years

  7. Where They Live • Little Brown Bats live mostly in North America – Canada, US, Mexico • They live in old buildings, hollow trees, in wood piles, caves or under rocks • They also like to sleep under metal roofs and in your attic

  8. Weather They Live In • Bats like cool weather • They like to come out when it turns 50°F • They stay in their caves during the day so they are not to hot • r

  9. How bats catch food • They get their food from echolocation • Echolocation is how they use sound to find their food • They make a screeching sound that bounces off their food

  10. Prey And Predator What they eat and what eats them • Snakes and rats and even big birds eat bats • Bats eat mice, insects, small birds, and frogs • BATS love to eat moths, the most

  11. Behavior How They Act • They are nocturnal (come out at night) • They leave their caves at dusk • If the moms leave their babies before they learn to fly they will fall and die

  12. Reproduction babies • The male and the female do not stick together after mating • The female takes care of babies • They breed only once per year and only one baby per female

  13. Physical ADAPTATIONhow it adapts to the surroundings • They have thumbs that help them climb and clean themselves • They have wings that allow them to fly away from their predators • They have big ears to hear from far away

  14. Behavioral adaptations • Bats sleep for 20 hours a day so they can fly all night • Bats are warm blooded it keeps them warm They don’t like cold weather so they fly south or hibernate during the winter

  15. pythat helps bats adapt

  16. FunFacts • A single brown bat can catch around 1,200 mosquitoes in one hour • There are 3 species of vampire bats which feed only on blood • Vampire bats can carry rabies, making their bites potentially dangerous

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