Bats like to hang upside down. Vampire bats like to eat blood. What We Have Learned About Bats Bats like to hang upside down because the claws on their feet are much stronger than their hands. Bats have eight fingers and two thumbs like we do. Not all bats use echolocation to find their food.
Fruit bats have small ears.
They do not need echolocation to find their food. Insect eating bats have large ears. They have to find their meals using echolocation. Bats can see just as well as us. They are nocturnal and diurnal.