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A '''bat''' is a winged [[mammal]] that senses it surroundings via echolocation. Most bats are nocturnal and are the most active at night or twilight. There are around 1,100 species of bats in the world <ref>http://www.batworld.org/main/main.html</ref>, divided into insect-eating bats, fruit bats, and vampire bat. Altough there is a common myth that bats feed on human blood, only 3 species actually eat blood, and none of them are harmful to humans <ref>http://www.batworld.org/myths_facts/myths_facts.html</ref>.

A '''bat''' is a winged [[mammal]] that senses it surroundings via echolocation. Most bats are nocturnal and are the most active at night or twilight. There are around 1,100 species of bats in the world <ref>http://www.batworld.org/main/main.html</ref>, divided into insect-eating bats, fruit bats, and vampire bats. Although there is a common myth that bats feed on human blood, only 3 species actually eat blood, and none of them are harmful to humans <ref>http://www.batworld.org/myths_facts/myths_facts.html</ref>. Bat guano (droppings) makes great agricultural fertilizer, and bats can live more than 20 years <ref>http://www.users.bigpond.com/rdoolan/bats.html</ref>.

 

The bat is the only mammal that can fly, and also the only mammal that is also categorized as a [[bird]] <ref>http://www.christiananswers.net/bible/lev11.html#13</ref>. It is unclean and should not be eaten, but is still, against the efforts of Christian missionaries, considered a delicacy in remote areas of Africa, in some islands of the South Pacific and the Asian Islands <ref>http://www.incrediblebats.com/tract/tract1.html</ref>.

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