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==Diet==
==Diet==
[[File:Myotis-blythii-cropped.jpg|200px|right|thumbnail|The Lesser mouse-eared bat can be found in [[China]]. In China, some people eat bat soup (See: [[Dietary practices of atheists]]). ]]
The majority of bat species feed on insects; many of these can consume their entire weight in insects in a single night of feeding. Several hunt small reptiles and mammals [http://www.batcon.org/batsmag/v15n2-5.html][http://www.iwokrama.org/forest/animals/falsevampirebat.htm]; one species (''Nyctalus lasiopterus'') hunts and kills birds on the wing [http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1119-bats-revealed-as-bird-killers.html], another (''Noctilio leporinus'') bears long claws on its feet and specializes in catching fish [http://www.photovault.com/Link/Animals/Mammals/Bats/Species/FishingBat.html]. The legendary vampire bat (''Desmodus rotundus'') of South America is the only species of mammal that subsists exclusively on a diet of blood, and is considered a serious pest to the livestock industry there.
The majority of bat species feed on insects; many of these can consume their entire weight in insects in a single night of feeding. Several hunt small reptiles and mammals [http://www.batcon.org/batsmag/v15n2-5.html][http://www.iwokrama.org/forest/animals/falsevampirebat.htm]; one species (''Nyctalus lasiopterus'') hunts and kills birds on the wing [http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1119-bats-revealed-as-bird-killers.html], another (''Noctilio leporinus'') bears long claws on its feet and specializes in catching fish [http://www.photovault.com/Link/Animals/Mammals/Bats/Species/FishingBat.html]. The legendary vampire bat (''Desmodus rotundus'') of South America is the only species of mammal that subsists exclusively on a diet of blood, and is considered a serious pest to the livestock industry there.
==Bats in the Bible==
==Bats in the Bible==
Under the [[Mosaic law]], bats were not [[kosher]]. The Bible doesn't explain why bats are classed as birds in the Bible when they are mammals:
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|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}}