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Nectar Eating Bats

Nectar consuming bats lap up the nectar with their tongue. They aren't skillful at echolocation, so they use their good eyesight and sense of smell to find flowers which they put they're long snout in and lap up nectar.

Frog Eating Bats

Frog eating bats find frogs by listening for their calls with their large ears. They recognize poisonous frogs by listening for their calls.

Fish Eating Bats

Fish eating bats are extremely skilled at echolocation. They have large ears. They skim the water looking for food. When they catch their prey, they eat all of it, including the bones.

Blood Eating Bats

Only 3 bats rely on blood as their food source. They only lap blood from mammals, which they find by sight and smell. They make an incision with their sharp teeth, then lap up the blood with their tongue. They are the only bats that walk on the ground.

Insect Eating Bats

Insect eating bats use echolocation the most. They have extremely large ears. They are agile, and can sense very small movements.

Fruit Eating Bats

Fruit eating bats use echolocation the least. They use sight and smell to find their food. They have teeth that are adapted to eat the fruit. However, they don't eat the skin and the seeds, they spit them out, which helps spread seeds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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