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Going Bats

A Classroom Lesson

From the

Mathematics & Science Center

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Wu Fu Symbol(health, wealth, happiness, long life, good luck)

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Classification

• Kingdom Animalia• Phylum Chordata

• Sub-phylum Vertebrata

• Class Mammalia• Order Chiroptera

• Sub-orders• Megachiroptera• Microchiroptera

Bat Facts

• Largest Bat

Large Flying fox of Indonesia

(6 ft. wingspan)

• Smallest Bat

Bumblebee Bat of Thailand

(6 in. wingspan)

Virginia Bats

• 1000 Bat species worldwide

• 45 United States Bat species

• 14 Virginia Bat species

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Little Brown Bat

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Insect Eaters

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Gray Bat

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Roosting in a Cave

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Red Bat

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“Hand Wing”

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Echolocation

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Big Eared Bat

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Nose Leaf and Tragus

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Spotted Bat

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Pallid Bat

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Long-Tongued Bat

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Eating & Pollinating

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Flying Foxes

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Jamaican Fruit Bat

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Vampire Bat

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Cleaner than Cats!

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Great Guano!

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Smart and Gentle

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Bat Pups

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A Bat Nursery

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Hibernation A “Bat-sicle”

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Congress Ave. BridgeAustin, Texas

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Back to the Cave

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Photo credits

• All photos in this presentation courtesy of BCI (Bat Conservation International)