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Bats are flying mammals. <To cancel Bats Facts, reply 'cancel'>

While others can glide, bats are the only mammals capable of continued flight. <To cancel Bats Facts, reply 'cancel'>

There are over 1000 different bat species. <To cancel Bat Facts, reply ‘cancel’>

Bats are nocturnal (active at night). <To cancel Bat Facts, reply ‘cancel’>

Bats ‘see’ in the dark using a special skill called echolocation. Bats make noises and wait for the sound waves to bounce back off objects (an echo), if it doesn’t bounce back then they can safely fly forward. They can tell the distance of various objects by how quickly the sound waves bounce back to them. <To cancel Bat Facts, reply ‘cancel’>

Most bats feed on insects, while others eat fruit, fish or even blood! <To cancel Bat Facts, reply ‘cancel’>

There are 3 species of vampire bats which feed solely on blood. <To cancel Bat Facts, reply ‘cancel’>

Vampire bats have small and extremely sharp teeth which are capable of piercing an animal’s skin (humans included) without them even noticing. <To cancel Bat Facts, reply ‘cancel’>

Vampire bats can carry rabies, making their bites potentially dangerous. <To cancel Bat Facts, reply ‘cancel’>

Some bats live by themselves while others live in caves with thousands of other bats.
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Bats can live for over 20 years.
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Pteropus bats (also known as flying foxes or fruit bats) are the largest in the world.
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The Bracken Bat Cave in Texas is the largest known bat colony in the world. Over 20 million bats live in the cave, which is more bats than there are people living in Mumbai, India—one of the world’s largest human cities. When the bats leave the cave, the group is so large that it looks like a huge storm on radar. The bats will eat over 200 tons of bugs in one night.
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The female short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus sphinx) performs oral sex, or fellatio, on males to prolong copulation.
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Some Mexican free-tailed bats can fly up to 250 miles (402 km) in a single night. They can fly up to 10,000 feet (3,048 m) high and reach speeds up to 60 miles per hour (97kph)
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Baby bats are cute.
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A single bat can eat more than 600 bugs in one hour, which is like a person eating 20 pizzas a night
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According to Bat Conservation International, 150 big brown bats can eat enough cucumber beetles in one summer to save farmers a billion dollars a year. Those beetles would have had 33 million larvae, which are what attack the crops.
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The world’s largest bat is the giant golden-crowned flying fox, a rare fruit bat. It has a wingspan of 5 to 6 feet (1.5 to 1.8 m)
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In Southeast Asia, small club-footed bats roost inside bamboo stalks. To reach their home, the bats squeeze into an opening as small as 0.4 inches—about the width of a fingernail
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