How do Bats Fly in the Dark?

"Both bats and birds have wings.  That is where their similarities end."

How do Bats Fly in the Dark?
By: Melissa Stewart
Copyright 2009
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Non Fiction (Informational)
Older Elementary School Age
31 Pages

Bats are often mistaken for birds when people look up to the night sky and think they see a bird, most likely they see a bat.  Bats sleep durring the day and play at night.  There are two types of bats: Megabats and Microbats.  Megabats live in the warm and tropical and eat mostly fruit. Microbats live all over the world and they mostly hunt insects.  Microbats also have the better eyesight out of the two groups of bats.  Bats make noises by making clicking noises with their tonuge, there are also many bats who use their noses.  Bats use sounds to find out where they are in relation to other things.  They will make a sound and listion for its echo, since really bats are mostly blind they have amazing hearing and that is how they know where they are and also do their hunting.  Bats wings are lightweight and flexible.  They have their hand and finger bones fused with their wings for extra strength.  So the big question is how do the bats fly in the dark?  They use their body and their wings to fly and all the other things, using sound to know where they are.  Bats were built for their conditions.

I would recomend this book for a teacher to use for her class when teaching about bats.  There is even an activity in the end of the book.  Also if a child wants to learn about bats they should read this.

I did not find anything wrong with this book.

I enjoyed this book.  Though I thought it would be written differently, but it was interesting.