### implement | bat | microbat:

Vampire bat
* Most vampire bats emerge at nights
  - feed on prey
* Some vampire bats feed on blood
  - peccaries
  - have distinction
* Some vampire bats have high intake
  - protein intake
  - regurgitate blood meals
* adapt to rainforests.
* adopt orphans and share food with hungry roost mates
  - roost-mates
* approach their prey on foot.
* are a lot like other bats, but they are also very different
  - also nocturnal or active during night
  - amongst the most sociable of the chiropterans
  - bats whose food source is blood , a dietary trait called hematophagy
  - capable of jumping straight up and flying
  - common in Arizona
  - mammals
  - parasites
  - silent and their bites are painless
  - social animals that engage in reciprocal food exchange
  - still alive
* are the most agile bats
  - only mammals that feed on nothing but blood
* are very adept in terrestrial locomotion
  - agile on the ground
  - small and generally drink the blood of animals and poultry
* can carry rabies, but it is rare.
* come out at midnight to suck blood.
* do exist elsewhere.
* drink blood of several domesticated animals including cows, pigs, chickens, and goats
  - chickens', horses' and pigs' blood
  - cows' blood
* drop near their prey, scuttle softly over on wing tips.
* form strong bonds with other members of the colony.
* have chemicals in their saliva that prevent the blood they are drinking from clotting
  - the fewest teeth of all bats
  - very specialized teeth
* parasitize a variety of animals, chiefly mammals.
* tend to live in caves, trees, or buildings.
* use infrared radiation to locate blood hotspots on their prey.
* use their sharp teeth to cut the skin of other animals and birds to suck their blood
  - make a tiny slit in their prey's skin

### implement | bat | microbat | vespertilionid:

Cave bat
* Most cave bats return year after year to the same caves
  - spend each winter in the same place, and each summer in the same roost
* weigh very little, less than an ounce.

Pallid bat
* Most pallid bats have average size
* are bats
  - immune to stings of scorpions and centipedes on which they feed
* are very social with strong group cohesion
  - vocal and have relatively slow flight patterns
  - one of the most unique feeding habits of any North American bat
* hibernate in deep rock crevices, caves, mines, and buildings.
* make several different sounds which apparently have different functions.
* roost in rock crevices, buildings, and bridges in arid regions.

### implement | bat | microbat | vespertilionid:

Red bat
* Most red bats eat insects.
* are early fliers in the evening but are much faster in flight than pips
  - most lucky since the color red is used to ward off evil spirits
  - solitary roosting bats, only roosting with other bats when the females have young ones
* cluster in broad leafed trees.
* emerge early in the evening, and forage over the same areas nightly.
* have short, rounded ears covered with fur.
* live solitary lives, coming together only to mate and migrate.
* roost in trees, shrubs, brush and weeds.
* take from one to three years to mature.

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Pipistrelle
* Most pipistrelles have flight patterns
  - use echolocation
* Some pipistrelles carry babies
  - feed on insects
* Some pipistrelles form colonies
  - nursery colonies
* Some pipistrelles have calls
  - short ears
* eat flies, grain moths, and other insects.
* fly at or slightly above head height with irregular twists and dives.
* includes brains
  - breasts
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - cytoplasm
  - faces
  - flight feathers
  - heads
  - nuclei
  - pedal extremities
  - piluses
  - plasma membranes
  - quill feathers
  - rib cages
  - sections
  - skulls
  - sterna
  - vacuoles
  - vertebrate feet
  - wings
* take wing early in the evening and make short, elliptical flights at treetop level.