Fact's Of Bats

A long time ago, people used to think bats were birds without feathers. But now we know that there is no such thing as a featherless bird. We know that bats are MAMMALS, just like people. But bats are very special mammals. They are the only mammals that can fly (without an airplane!) Flying squirrels are mammals too, but they don't really fly. They jump from high in a tree glide through the air like a kite. Bats flap their wings and fly like a bird. Bat wings are made of two thin layers of skin stretched over the bat's arm and fingers. Bats have a thumb and four fingers, just like people (sorry, you can only see 3 of the fingers in my photo -- it's tough to get a bat to pose!).

The bat's fingers are very long compared to its body. If we had fingers like a bat, they would be longer than our legs!

Bat wings go all the way down the side of the bat's body and partway down its legs. When bats fly, they don't just flap up and down. If you watch them closely, it almost looks like they're pulling themselves through the air -- the movement is similar to the butterfly stroke in swimming.

Bats use their wings for more than just flying. They can wrap their wings around insects or fruit to hold it while eating. lol i wrote this on 15 minutes bur frist i wrote it on notepad then pasted hear i took 3 hours yesterday to leanr this post

nice work on the post! wow I never knew most of this about bats! (the most I knew was that they used some kinda built in radar thingy )

I don't think I could imagine having fingers longer then my legs

Once I toured a cave. The guide said that the bats hung upside down from the cave top because they had to "fall" to fly. Every night, I can go outside and watch at least one bat eat the insects flying around the outside light. It is neat to watch bats!