- Bats always turn left when they leave their caves.
- Frog-eating bats identify edible frogs from poisonous ones by listening to the mating calls of male frogs. Frogs counter this by hiding and using short, difficult to locate calls.
- Bats sleep during the day and feed at night. The place that bats sleep in is called the "roost."
- Bats emit ultrasonic sounds to communicate with each other.
- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
- African heart-nosed bats can have such a keen sense of sound that they can hear the footsteps of a beetle walking on sand from six feet away.
- Giant flying foxes, which are a type of bat, that live in Indonesia have wingspans of nearly six feet.
- Vampire bat saliva has been responsible for many advances in research into stroke recovery.
- The flying fox of Africa has a wingspan of fifty inches!
- The flying fox is a bat with a wing span over five feet.
- The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
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