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Bats
Bats
to Bats
What do YOU know
about bats????
• Creepy, blind, blood-
sucking RODENTS of the
night…
• Bats are flying rats
• Bats will attack you for
no reason
• Bats will fly into your
hair
• Bats are blind
Nobody
Actually….. likes
•Those are all just me….
BAT MYTHS
•Bats won’t fly into your
hair or attack you
•They aren’t blind at all
•And they aren’t even
rodents……
So, What are bats?
• Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Eutheria
Superorder:Laurasiatheria
Order: Chiroptera
(hand-wing)
Suborder Megachiroptera- flying foxes
• 1 Family, ~166 species