If you look at all those so-called species of bats, they just look like bats the way dogs look like dogs.


well that's not quite true.. there are two main varieties of bats that i know of.. fruit eaters (who generally don't have 'echo location')-- and meat/insect eaters(who do have echo locations skills.) --or not so bad looking (sort of like the muzzle of a racoon or possum) to butt ugly.. (wrinkles up faces, over sized ears, sharp pointy teeth!)

so some bats are vegitarian, and some are carniverous.. thats a pretty big difference! and it shows in their anatomy. the carniverous ones are the ones with sharp pointy teeth, and they are the ones that use echo location- some find and eat insects on the wing (that is they catch flying insects in mid flight!)fruit eating bats are like small flying monkeys/lemurs or something.

i don't know if these different bats can interbreed (the way, in theory, a great dane could couple with a dashound!)


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