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Flying Mammals
Sporting fur instead of feathers, the world's only true flying mammals, bats, are all gathered into one order, Chiroptera, with 18 families, 180 Genera, and 925 species. Though not classified as flying mammals, other mammals who can move through the air include sugar gliders, 44 species of flying squirrels, and four species of lemur, called culogos. To learn more and share knowledge about this amazing and unique group of mammals, glide on in to our Flying Mammals category to ask and answer questions.
354 Questions
What mammals live in temperate grasslands?
Mice, gophers, deer, pronghorn, bison, elk, cattle, jackrabbits, badgers, rats, etc.
Which countries took part in whaling?
There are 4 main countries that hunts for whales. They are; Faroe Islands, Norway, Iceland and Japan. However, the US kills about 50-60 whales a year for scientific research but it is done on selected coastal waters.
Ways that the sugar glider has adapted to suit their environmemt?
A sugar glider lives in forests, especially eucalyptus and acacia forests.They prefer rainforests and bushland (both wet and dry sclerophyll forest). They can adapt to cool-temperate climates, such as that found in the Tasmanian bushland, and warmer, humid bushland and rainforests of northern Australia. They are healthiest in drier eucalyptus bushland rather than moist rainforest. They prefer areas where there is a variety of Eucalypt species, and an understorey of acacias or wattles.
Why birds can fly but people cannot?
Because birds are small and they have WINGS. they flap them very gently but fast. they go in the air and when they are high the will just sway, without flapping. its one of the things birds do.
Bats are nocturnal and only come out at night. They aren't blind, that's a myth, they just have poor vision. They use eco-location. This is when a bat makes a high pitched sound, too high for human to hear. The sound waves travel until the bump into an object such as a insect of tree. The sound waves return back to the bat and it calculates how far away it is from the object. Dolphin use this tactic too.
When killing flies with a swatter, I always aim about 2" in the direction they are facing, because when they takeoff, they have to go forwards. Get'm most every time! Try it, it works.
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How do you stop a sugar glider from bite?
Sugar Gliders are gentle creatures and don't bite if they are NOT bothered. Though, if bitten you should have a first aid kit with you in case it's serious. If it's bleeding put a band-aid on it and get out of the forest.
Do flying fox bats eat rabbits?
Actually, no.
Flying foxes are fruit-oriented bats, and because of this, they use sight and smell to locate food rather than echolocation like their smaller relatives.
From "how stuff works":
" Flying foxes belong to the family known as fruit bats. They sometimes eat nectar and pollen but, usually, flying foxes eat juice that they squeeze out of fruit. When a flying fox smells ripe fruit, it swoops down and bites into it. It then chews the fruit to a pulp and presses the pulp up against the roof of its mouth, squeezing out the juice. It swallows the juice, but spits out the fruit's pulp, skin, and seeds. Flying foxes eat mainly such fruits as wild figs, which are not grown in orchards. But they also eat such fruits as mangoes, bananas, and papayas, and they will sometimes do a great deal of damage to orchards in which these fruits are being grown. As a result, flying foxes are considered by farmers to be pests. Compared with fruit diseases and insect pests, however, flying foxes cause very little damage to orchards."
Where do Flying fox bats live?
They live in the tropics and subtropics of Asia (including the Indian subcontinent), Australia, East Africa, and a number of remote oceanic islands in both the Indian and Pacific Oceans. At least 60 extant species are in this genus.
How much can a flying fox bat eat?
i cant say how much it eats but i know for sure it eats fruit or nector
How do you get a horse on Bella Sara adventures?
simple. look for code on the cards, then click special codes in the top right of the screen and enter them in the box. Here some to start with: Misty=799dtx5463
Juno=9qrp62pgd Lucky Light=6f4s9zjrph. Type them in. The're really pretty horses.
How many times a day do you feed a baby bird?
It depend on what species the bird is and how old the chick is.
How big can a fruit bat grow up to?
The size of a fruit bat depends on which breed of bat is being asked about. A Australian fruit bat is around thirty inches in size when full grown. Through a straw fruit bat is five to six foot in length.
Bats do not 'take off' they cannot do that. They just drop from the tree and spread their wings. That is why they hang upside-down.
a flying lemur is a kind of animals that have a medium wings its wings occur to the size of its body
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Can you put bark in a cage with a sugar glider?
Yes. I believe you can.
just be careful that your sugar glider does not eat to much of it! ha ha
so try it and see what happens!
Scientific name of all mammals in the Philippines?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mammals_of_the_Philippines
