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added section on bats in the Bible
Several species of Microchiroptera feed on and pollenate flowers [http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/bats.shtml][http://www.humanflowerproject.com/index.php/weblog/comments/floral_long_necks_and/][http://www.whozoo.org/students/dansch/fruitbat.htm], as well as feed on fruit; the majority of Megachiroptera feed on fruit exclusively [http://www.thewildones.org/Animals/fruitBat.html][http://wonderclub.com/Wildlife/mammals/indianflyingfox.html].
Several species of Microchiroptera feed on and pollenate flowers [http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/bats.shtml][http://www.humanflowerproject.com/index.php/weblog/comments/floral_long_necks_and/][http://www.whozoo.org/students/dansch/fruitbat.htm], as well as feed on fruit; the majority of Megachiroptera feed on fruit exclusively [http://www.thewildones.org/Animals/fruitBat.html][http://wonderclub.com/Wildlife/mammals/indianflyingfox.html].
==Bats in the Bible==
Under the [[Mosaic law]], bats were not [[kosher]]:
{{Bible quote|And these [are they which] ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they [are] an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, And the vulture, and the kite after his kind; Every raven after his kind; And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl, And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.|book=Leviticus|chap=11|verses=13-19|version=KJV}}
{{Bible quote|[Of] all clean birds ye shall eat. But these [are they] of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, And every raven after his kind, And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant, And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.|book=Deuteronomy|chap=14|verses=11-18|version=KJV}}
[[Category:Mammals]]
[[Category:Mammals]]