Tomás Pérez

Summary - Original Article: BatsContrary to popular belief, bats are not rodents, are not blind and the chances of transmitting rabies are the same as those of a dog. Bats are mammals and have a skeleton similar to the human one. Although bats have good vision, they use a system named echolocation to move in the dark, which consists in making sounds from their mouths that bounce off objects. There are about 1,000 species of bat, each one with a particular diet. For seventy percent of bats, the diet is insects. Other types of bats survive on flowers, fruit or small animals and one species of bat feed on the blood of large mammals. Even though bats play a key role in the functioning of ecosystems, most of them do not live past early life because of human trespass. In order to control vampires bat populations, farmers have killed thousands of fruit-and insect-eating bats as well. Bats shouldn’t be considered infamous because of not being a lovable sort of animal, as they are valuable.