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See how many true or false questions you can get right.
False.  Although bats have relatively good eyesight, most bats depend on sonar to navigate and catch insects in the dark.
False.  Bats can find tiny insect in total darkness.  They are much too smart to fly into people.
True.  Insect eating bats can eat up to half their body weight in insects in one night.  The record for mosquito catching is 600 in one hour!
False.  Bats are clean and groom themselves just like cats.  Bats can get rabies, like all mammals, but few do.  Remember, bats are wild animals.  You have nothing to fear if you never touch a bat.
True.  Some mammals, like flying squirrels, can glide.  Bats are the only mammals that can really fly.
False.  While both bats and mice are mammals, bats are not rodents and are more closely related to primates .
True and False by Bat Conservation International, see www.batcon.org
  Other interesting things about bats:

Bats ears are located far apart on their head.  Each ear can pick up its own set of sounds.  That is why a bat can chase an insect through chair slats, catch the insect and not touch the chair.  Scientists believe that each bat has it own set of sounds and that each hears only its own echoes----even in a crowded cave with thousand of bats.

 

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