Bats

Spotted bat, hammerhead bat, black flying fox, spear nosed bat, and thousands of more. There are more than 900 species of bats in the world. Some studies show that there are up to 1,200 species in the world. You can separate all these bats into two groups. One of them is called the microbats and the other megabats. How can you tell them apart? Well the name really says it all. Microbats are small but have big ears while megabats are bigger and live more in the tropical areas in our planet. Bats are the only mammals known to be capable of flight. They are the only mammals known to feed off of blood. Also the bats wings resembles a human hand anatomically. The bats population makes up a quarter of the mammal population! You can find 1,000 of them throughout the world, not including the polar region and extreme desert. The giant golden-crowned flying fox is known as the largest species of bat in this planet. The wingspan is 5 ft and weighs up to 2.6 pounds. Sooner or later this species is feared to be extinct. Many people entering the forest have cause the population level so low that it has caused a possible extinction.