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Baby bat
* are three-cm when they are born.
* can fly after only one month, and are full grown after two or three months.
* cry for food.
* drink milk from their moms.
* grow rapidly, and most young are able to fly in two to five weeks.
* have their own sound in order to survive

Baseball bat
* are bats
  - capable of hurt
  - illegal
  - used for kill
* is baseball equipment

Big bat
* Most big bats have noses.
* form colonies
  - nursery colonies

British bat
* are small furry creatures - some people say they're like flying hamsters.
* eat insects and nothing else.

Evening bat
* Evening Bats are most abundant in the eastern half of the state.
* enjoy roosting in buildings and tree cavities in the summer.

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Female bat
* Many female bats live together in colonies when they are raising their young.
* flies, like their relatives tsetse flies, are remarkably good mothers.
* give birth to only one or two young annually and roost in small or large numbers.
* nurse their young for six to eight weeks
  - until the young are old enough to fly
* occupy nursery colonies in late spring or early summer when they give birth to young.
* roost together to have their babies
  - with their young, males remain separate until the newborn bats are weaned
* suckle their young with milk and weaning usually occurs at the age of four to six weeks.

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Fruit bat
* Many fruit bats roost during the day in the Botanical Gardens.
* Most fruit bats have brown fur
  - eyes
  - teeth
* Some fruit bats eat fruit
  - seeds
  - feed on bananas
* are a brownish or yellowish color.
* are also critical for pollination and seed dispersal of many tropical plants
  - important because they too eat fruit and then travel long distances
  - an important part of the forest environment
  - indigenous to the world's rain forests and tropics
  - mainly nocturnal and have excellent eyesight
  - relatively large bats
  - some of the most beautiful and comical looking bats
  - widespread, their habitat stretching all the way to Africa and China
* eat mostly fruit and nuts and are bigger than the insect-eating bats
  - other things too
  - the fruit of cecropia and other trees and are essential seed dispersers
* enter zones.
* feed primarily on fruit and nectar.
* hang around Sydney trees and can be quite large, too.
  - small ears
  - small, weak teeth and long, bristly tongues
* help to spread seeds by eating the fruit and passing the seeds out in their droppings.
* lack the ability of echolocation.
* maintain very broad hunting grounds, at least to the degree that fruit can be hunted.
* perform an extremely important function as seed dispersers
  - in dispersing seeds
* prefer to feed on ripe fruit, and they help spread seeds of fruit.
* spend the daytime sleeping, resting, licking and grooming themselves and each other.
* use sight and smell to locate their food.
* use their clawed digits to grasp fruit and they bite off pieces with their sharp teeth
  - large canine teeth to pierce the skins of fruit
+ Fruit bat, Senses and Diet
  * Fruit bats mostly eat fruit juice and flower nectar. They chew the fruit, then spit out the seeds, peel, and pulp. Although they have large eyes and can see well, fruit bats do not use sight as their primary sense. Fruit bats eat other things too.

Gray bat
* are an example of the harm that can be done by interlopers
  - restricted entirely to areas with caves or cave-like habitats
* hibernate during the winter in special caves.
* inhabit the cave regions of northern Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama.
* require caves with deep vertical shafts which trap cold air.
* spend their daylight hours in caves.

Horseshoe bat
* Most horseshoe bats have noses.
* Some horseshoe bats emit components.

Individual bat
* eat many insects and large colonies can consume countless quantities nightly.
* have their own call to tell each other apart.