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Chiptera Research Paper

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Payton L. Riley
Mrs.Wiley
Biology
January 10, 2016

Chiroptera I am doing my report on the Chiroptera order, this order is what bats are categorized into. Bats are mammals whose forelimbs form webbed wings; this makes them the only mammals capable of true flight. The web consists of two layers of skin, which is only a little connective tissues containing blood vessels, nerves, and muscles. Their wings have great evaporative surfaces, causing these mammals to need much more water or moist food compared to other mammals of equal size. The Chiroptera is a very interesting and unique order, my goal in this report is to bring to light what makes these mammals so fun to learn about, and that they are not as harmful as commonly thought. One of the interesting things about this order is that even though it’s commonly believed that they have poor eyesight it is actually the opposite, bats can see very well. Yet even with their good eyesight they depend mostly on their echolocation. They focus in on insects by emitting high pitched sounds that bounce off the insects to help them pinpoint their exact location. The sounds they emit usually only last from 5 to 10 milliseconds; each …show more content…

Some of the well-known bats species in this order are Pteropus, otherwise known as the flying fox or fruit bat, the Desmodus Rotundus which is the common vampire bat, and the Myotis Lucifugus which is the very well know little brown bat. Some of the interesting things about these three bats are that the Pteropus is the largest bat in the world and the Desmodus Rotundus is the only mammal in the world to survive only on blood. Even though the Myotis Lucifugus is very common and doesn’t have anything that makes it particularly extraordinary is a model organism for studying bats, without it we probably wouldn’t know many of the things we known today about these

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