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(#2) Their Wings Are Huge Fingertips
You might think that bats and birds have similar anatomy, since they both fly, but their wings are very different. Bats have something like a hand inside their wings, including a thumb they can use for clinging and holding.
But the main difference between bat and bird wings has to do with sensitivity. The skin that covers bats' wings features touch censors, much like those found on a human fingertip. Bats' wings, however, are also covered with tiny hairs that can sense changes in airflow and air pressure. Their wings' composition allows bats to dive, bank, and rise more easily.
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(#13) They Have Insane Metabolisms
Bats have lightning-quick metabolisms. Fruit bats can digest and metabolize fruits like mangos and bananas in under twenty minutes. Vampire bats consume twice their weight per day to keep up with their metabolism. Insect eating bats eat thousands of insects in a night, the equivalent of their own body weight.
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(#1) They Are The Only Mammals That Fly
You may have heard of flying squirrels, sugar gliders, or maybe even the colugo before - they're all referred to as flying mammals. This is a misnomer, as all of those animals glide rather than actually fly. The only flying mammal in the world is the bat. Like birds, they use their wings to push air down and their body up, and are thereby able to take to the air.
Bats are agile, too. They can turn, rise in altitude, and even hover briefly in midair. They use that flying ability to catch prey, escape predators, and move around freely.
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(#12) They Are Incredibly Clean
Bats are often thought of as filthy carriers of disease. That's far from the truth - in reality, a bat is no more dirty than the average cat. Like cats, bats lick themselves clean. They are so thorough that they'll even wash behind own ears.
Bats can carry diseases such as rabies. However, less than a half percent of bats end up with rabies. Humans are far more likely to contract rabies through dogs.
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(#3) They Can Eat A Thousand Mosquitos In An Hour
Bats can be broken into two groups: those that eat insects or meat, and those that eat fruit, nectar, and plants. One such insect-eating bat is the little brown bat, which lives all over North America. These creatures love to eat mosquitos, and are expert hunters. In a single hour, they can grab and consume a thousand mosquitos.
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(#17) They'll Probably Outlive Your Pet
Most small mammals have fairly short lifespans of a few years, or maybe a decade if they're lucky. Bats, however, live for an average of twenty years, and some species live even longer. The little brown bat, for instance, has the longest lifespan among bats - thirty years or more.
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Due to the harsh living environment in the wild nature, wild animals generally carry viruses. It is well known that bats are the only mammals capable of flying in nature, and they carry hundreds of viruses, such as the scary SRSA virus. This is also an important reason why humans hate and fear bats so much. Bats have existed on the earth for millions of years, and are one of the most widely distributed and most evolved mammalian groups in the world.
Bats play an important role in nature and are an indispensable part of the food chain. Although bats are beneficial to human society, they are still terrifying wild animals. The random tool explained 17 reasons why bats are scary.
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