Bat Basics
A bat is this type of animal
What is a mammal?
Body parts that are modified to form a bat's wings
What are forelimbs and elegonated fingers?
Using returning sound echoes to locate things
What is echolocation?
Microbats eat this
What are insects?
Active mainly at night
What is nocturnal?
The special ability that makes bats unique among mammals
What is true powered flight?
Thin material that stretches between the bones of a bat's wings
What is a skin membrane?
A bats send this out when echolocating
What are high-frequency sounds?
Megabats eat this
What is fruit or nectar?
One place a bat may roost
What is a cave, tree, crevice, or building?
Another word for a baby bat
What is a pup?
Many bats use this to hang upside down
What are their feet and curved claws?
This returns to a bat after sound hits an object
What is an echo?
Another word for a megabat
What is a flying fox?
A group of bats living together
What is a colony?
Bats are not classified as birds for this reason
What is they have fur and skin-covered wings, not feathers?
Bats are NOT classified as birds for this reason
What are they have fur and skin-covered wings, not feathers?
Echolocation helps insect-eating bats by
What is it helps locate and catch prey in darkness?
A group that commonly echolocates to hint insects
What are microbats?
Insect-eating bats are useful for this reason
What is they help control insect populations?
Two characteristics that show bats are mammals
What is fur, live young, producing milk?
Wing membranes help a bat fly for this reason
What is they create flexible surfaces for lift and control?
Returning echoes can tell this about bats
What is distance, position, and clues about size or movement?
Fruit-eating bats help plant by
What are they disperse seeds: nectar-feeding bats can pollinate flowers?
Bat mothers care for pups for this reason
What are pups need milk and care to grow?