It shows that bats and humans are quite similar. Bats and humans both have broad shoulders and a large rib cage that allows deep breathing. We have the same number of bones in our skeleton as bats, including the number of fingers. But a bat's fingers are much longer and narrower, and they use them to fly. You can test how a bat's fingers function at one of the exhibition's stations.
Researchers believe that many kinds of bats are under threat of extinction.
One way of helping bats is to set up a roosting-box in your garden. It can give bats protection during the day and when it is too cold. At the exhibition, you get the chance of putting a bat-box together. But there's much more to discover at the M rkrets m stare exhibition. It's open up to the end of the winter holidays, 2001.