The document discusses various flying mammals, focusing primarily on bats, which are the only mammals capable of true flight. It highlights the unique adaptations of flying squirrels and different species of bats, including their feeding habits and reproductive behavior. Bats primarily consume insects, fruits, and nectar, using echolocation to locate their prey in the dark.

1. Flying Mammals
Made By – Aditya Singh Jadoun

2. About flying mammals
• Some mammals have “wings” so they can glide through the air, but
bats are the only mammals that can actually fly by flapping their
wings.

3. Flying Squirrel
• The flying squirrel has loose pieces of skin on either side of its body.
When it jumps it opens them like an umbrella & can glide for
100m(330 feet), steering with its tail & legs.

4. Bats
• Bat’s wings are actually long arms with skin stretching between each
finger. Their thumbs stick out like small claws to grip branches.

5. Vampire Bat
• The vampire bat’s favourite meal is fresh blood, even yours ! It feeds
by digging its sharp teeth into the flesh, then laps up the blood.

6. Bat features
• Bats have a variety of head shapes, which reflects their feeding
habits.
Fruit bat: has a long snout & a long tongue to sip nectar & eat fruits
Long eared bat: this bat has large ears that can hear insects’ wings flapping.
Long-nosed bat: these bats have long noses to help them smell flowers.

7. Bat babies
• Some bats bring their babies up together in a huge nursery, often
filled with thousands of bats. Amazingly the mothers can always find
her babies when she returns with food.

8. Bat diet
• Most of the bats eat insects, but some bats eats fruits & drink nectar
from flowers by using their long tongue.

9. Catching insects
• Bats are very good at catching insects in the mid-air in the dark! They
find them by making clicking noises & waiting for the echoes to
bounce off the insects.