Miss Florin's Class

 

Bat Poems

You are like a bat flying in the sky looking for food.
Then an owl comes.  You're trapped.  You've got nowhere to go.
Then you hide.  He can't find you.

by Nick

Bats
Soft Shiny
Eating flying hanging
They eat all the bugs
Helpful

by Ryan

I am a bat just following you
around.
Jumping, twisting, turning
Upside down.
Feeling so happy, flying round and round.

by Brian

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Bats are the only flying mammals.
Some bAts eat fish.

Most eat insecTs.
Vampire bats lick blood off other animals.

by James L.

Insect Bats help the world by eating insects.
My  fAvorite bat is a fruit bat.
In an hour baTs eat more than 100 insects.
Some bats live in the rainforest.

by Cassandra R.

Favorite Bats

My favorite animal is a bat.  It is a Gigantic Flying Fox bat.  It is known as the largest bat.   It's wingspan is 80 inches.  It roosts in caves and trees.  It eats fruit and nectar.  It has black spots, pink ears, and it is brown.

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by Valeria R.

My favorite bat is a Gigantic Flying fox bat.  It's wingspan is about 80 inches.  The flying   fox bat eats fruit and nectar a lot. 

The flying fox bat lives in trees and caves.  But they live in Australia and Asia.

by Samantha C.

fMy favorite bat is the serotine bat.  They live in Europe.  It is about 4.5 inches long.  This bat is a mammal.  Did you know that all bats are mammals?

by Dominick

My favorite bat is the Desert Pallid bat.  It's wingspan is 13-14 inches.  It roosts are rock crevices, caves, open shelters, and cliffs. It eats scorpians, crickets, moths, centipedes, and grasshoppers.  It's yellow-brown with a white belly.

by Brett

My favorite bat is a bulldog bat because it finds fish with echolocation and spears with claws.  It lives in a hollow tree and shallow caves.  It is 11-12 inches long.  It's color is rust with white patches.

by Anthony

My favorite bat  is a flying fox.   They eat fruit and nectar.  They live in trees and caves.  Flying foxes are the biggest bats.

by Jessica J.

My favorite bat is the vampire bat.   It drinks about five teaspoons of blood a day.  It sucks blood from cows and horses and pigs.  Their wingspan is eight inches.

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by Michael P.

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My favorite bat   is the vampire bat.  It's wingspan is eight inches.  It lives in caves.   It's color is gray and white.  It drinks blood from cows, pigs, and horses.   It can drink about five teaspoons of blood a day.

by John M.

My favorite animal is a bat.  A vampire bat because it is so cool.  It goes out to a farm and drinks five teaspoons of blood a day.  It eats from a cow, horses, and pigs.  It lives in caves and tree hollow.

by Amanda

My favorite bat is a Dog Faced bat.   This African epauletted fruit bat looks very much like a dog, with it's furry body, slender face, and pointed ears.  It eats fruit.  It's roosts are in Africa.

by Ricky

My favorite bat is a Epauleted Fruit Bat.  Male has tufts of white hair on shoulders.  Their wingspan is 10-12 inches.  They live in trees, shallow rock shelters.  The Epauleted Fruit Bat eats ripe fruit and nectar.  The Epauleted Fruit Bat's color is tan with a white belly.

by Brittany

My favorite animal is a bat.  It's a Gigantic Flying Fox Bat.  It is the largest known bat.  It's wingspan is 80 inches.  It lives in trees and caves.  They eat fruit and nectar.

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My favorite bat is a vampire bat.   They like to lick blood.  They are gray and white.  They live in caves, trees, and hollows.  Bats eat blood from cows, horses, and pigs.  Vampire Bats drink about 5 teaspoons of blood a day.

by Brittni

My favorite bat is a Dogbat because it is brown.  And it is big.  It has a furry body.  It is a fruit bat.  It's body measures 8 inches head to toes.  It eats fruit.

by Brianne B.

My favorite bat is the Bumblebee bat.   It live in Thailand.  It is brown with a white belly.  They eat small insects.  It's home is in limestone caves.  It's wingspan is 2 inches.  It is the smallest mammal in Thailand.

by Elizabeth

My favorite bat is the little brown bat.  It can live as long as 30 yeears.  It's wingspan is 9 to 11 inches.  It lives in caves, attics, rocks, crevices, mines, barns, and tunnels.   It eats insects.  They are an orange brown color.  And it has a gray belly.

by John A.

My favorite bat is the Bumblebee bat.   It is the smallest mammal known.  It only lives in Thailand.  They are brown with a white belly.  Bumblebee bats live in limestone caves.  They eat small insects.  It's wingspan is two inches.

by Taryn Alyssa

The doggy bat lives in Africa.  It looks like a dog.  It is a fruit bat.  It eats fruit.  It lays upside down.   It is brown.

by Samantha S.

My favorite bat is the vampire bat.  It is gray and white.  It drinks about five teaspoons of blood a day.  It's wingspan is 8 inches.  It drinks blood from cows, horses, and pigs.   A substance in the bat's saliva makes the wound go on bleeding long after the bat has finished it's meal.  It lives in Mexico.

by Steven

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by Steven

Bat Facts
by
James L.

  • Bats are the only flying mammals.
    They're nocturnal.
    They have soft wings.
    They use echolocation to see.
    Their babies are pink.
    Over a million bats come out at night to feed.
    There are almost a thousand species of bats.
    The largest bat's wing span was 6 feet long.
    Bats are on every continent of the world except Antarctica.

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