Keeping with the Halloween theme let's go batty! Bats are the only mammals that fly,they also make up about 21% of the mammals on earth. They are very diverse including the smallest member of the mammal group,the bumblebee bat at only an inch up to the flying fox with a 5 foot wingspan. There are two classes of bats,microbats and megabats. The microbats are the smaller ones who hunt with echolocation and eat insects where the megabats are larger with some being daytime flyers with diets of mainly fruits of which they also are major pollinators. So even if you associate bats with creepy stuff and Halloween they are actually an important part of our lives.
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