BATS! About Fruit Bats for Kids - FACTS ABOUT BATS

Today we will talk about BATS, fruit bats. Fruit bats usually live in warm climates. They are sometimes called flying foxes because their furry faces look like foxes, but they are bats. There are different kinds of fruit bats, and some of the biggest fruit bats have wings that are about six feet across. Our fruit bats are the smaller guys. Here are some Fruit bats showing us how they survive in the jungle. When you might be walking through the jungle in the afternoon and when you look up you might see several strange animals hanging upside down in the tree above you. Their wings are wrapped around their body and they seem to be sleeping and upside down is the weird thing about them. They like it like that. You are looking at fruit bats now! Fruit bats, like all bats, are mammals. This means babies drink their mother’s milk and they have fur on their body. Humans are mammals, too, but bats are the only mammals that can fly. Bet you didn’t know that… When you think of bats you might think of caves, as i