Are bats animals

Answer 1

No, they are mammals like humans.

Additional Comments:

· bats are mammals - warm-blooded, give birth to live young

· wings are folds of skin supported by elongated finger bones

· resting bad hang head downward - making it easy to take to flight at any given moment

· average sized Canadian bat - weighs 8 g, wing span of about 22 cm

· larges Canadian species weighs about 30 g, wing span of 40 cm

· smallest Canadian species weighs about 5 g

· bats are not blind - they can see very well

· bats are nocturnal creatures

· bats in Canada feed on insects - will consume 50-100 percent of their body weight in one night

· Bats use echolocation to catch prey

· send out high frequency sound waves to find objects in their path

· echolocation calls are ultrasonic - beyond human hearing range in most cases but there is the Spotted Bat (euderma maculatum) which uses lower frequency echolocation calls which can be heard by people

· Canada has 19 species of bats

· life span of over 30 years

Answer 2

The short answer is yes; however there are two types of bats - large, fruit eating (such as flying foxes) and small, echolocating bats. It may well be that these two groups evolved separately.

There are over 1000 species of bat and they make up 20% of mammals. Not a great deal is known about the evolution of bats, mainly because their small, fragile skeletons don't fossilize very well but their genetics have placed them into the "supergroup" laurasiatheria which relates them (amongst others) to hedgehogs and shrews.

Answer 3

yes, bats are animals.

the group they are in is called a mammal.

Answer 4

Yes a bat is an animal

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