Definition
Bats
Vocabulary
100

nocturnal

active at night; bats
100

What type of animal are bats?

Mammal

100

lightly sleeping

dozes

200
swoops

drops down suddenly; dives

200

These bats love to eat fruit.

Megabats

200

repeating sounds when sound waves bounce off a surface

echoes

300

squeaks

a short high noise

300

I use echolocation.

Microbats

300

to move suddenly

twitch

400

slithers

slides down, on, or through something

400

I drink a small amount of blood from cows, pigs, etc.

Vampire bat

400
one small part of a whole

detail

500

fluttering

an act of moving or flapping quickly

500

I am the smallest mammal in the world.

A bumblebee bat.

500

to dive or jump

plunge