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Description:

Bats are flying mammals in the order Chiroptera. The forelimbs of bats are webbed and developed as wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. By contrast, other mammals said to fly, such as flying squirrels, gliding possums and colugos, glide rather than fly, and can only glide for short distances. Bats do not flap their entire forelimbs, as birds do, but instead flap their spread out digits, which are very long and covered with a thin membrane or patagium

Habitat:

Caves in dense forest on the island of Puerto Rico.

Notes:

Although the bat's themselfs are not visible on the pictures I wanted to show where the live in thousands and thousands,... between the Stalactite

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