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(#13) They Have Insane Metabolisms
Bats have lightning-quick metabolisms. Fruit bats can digest and metabolize fruits like mangos and bananas in under twenty minutes. Vampire bats consume twice their weight per day to keep up with their metabolism. Insect eating bats eat thousands of insects in a night, the equivalent of their own body weight.
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(#8) They Cuddle While Sleeping
It can get pretty cold in caves at night, and bats don't sleep in nests. They simply hang upside-down, near the rock. To ward off the chill, some bats have developed a technique for keeping each other warm: cuddling. Little brown bats refuse to sleep alone, and will sometimes cuddle up in a massive heap as they drift off.
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(#10) They Hunt "Big" Game
Most bats aren't carnivorous, but some types hunt down and eat meat, like fish, crustaceans, frogs, and even rodents. One such bat, the Mexican fishing bat, will even dive towards the water and snag fish. Its powerful wings let it carry its lunch to a quiet place to enjoy.
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(#15) Their Poop Makes Amazing Fertilizer
Farmers frequently use dung from chickens, cows, or other animals to encourage their crops to grow. Bat poop, though, might be the best fertilizer of all. Bat guano improves soil texture, and has microbes that help encourage plant growth. It also contains large volumes of nitrogen, which promotes rapid, steady growth in plants.
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(#14) They Can Get Around In Total Darkness
It's a common misconception that bats are blind or have poor sight. In truth, bats have excellent vision, but it's not their most useful sense. Instead, bats rely on echolocation, which ensures they can move around even when they can't see anything at all.
To use this unique ability, the bat sends out a signal in the form of a sound wave from either its mouth or nose. The echo then bounces off objects and comes back to the bat's ears. Now that the bat can "see" obstacles, it can navigate accordingly. Using echolocation, the bat can detect objects as small as a single hair.
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(#2) Their Wings Are Huge Fingertips
You might think that bats and birds have similar anatomy, since they both fly, but their wings are very different. Bats have something like a hand inside their wings, including a thumb they can use for clinging and holding.
But the main difference between bat and bird wings has to do with sensitivity. The skin that covers bats' wings features touch censors, much like those found on a human fingertip. Bats' wings, however, are also covered with tiny hairs that can sense changes in airflow and air pressure. Their wings' composition allows bats to dive, bank, and rise more easily.
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Due to the harsh living environment in the wild nature, wild animals generally carry viruses. It is well known that bats are the only mammals capable of flying in nature, and they carry hundreds of viruses, such as the scary SRSA virus. This is also an important reason why humans hate and fear bats so much. Bats have existed on the earth for millions of years, and are one of the most widely distributed and most evolved mammalian groups in the world.
Bats play an important role in nature and are an indispensable part of the food chain. Although bats are beneficial to human society, they are still terrifying wild animals. The random tool explained 17 reasons why bats are scary.
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