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Patriquin, Krista J; Guy, Cylita; Hinds, Joshua; Ratcliffe, John M (1 January 2019). "Male and female bats differ in their use of a large urban park". Journal of Urban Ecology. 5 (1): juz015. doi: 10.1093/jue/juz015 . Retrieved 13 December 2020. Bats possess a highly adapted respiratory system to cope with the demands of powered flight, an energetically taxing activity that requires a large continuous throughput of oxygen. In bats, the relative alveolar surface area and pulmonary capillary blood volume are larger than in most other small quadrupedal mammals. [69] During flight the respiratory cycle has a one-to-one relationship with the wing-beat cycle. [70] Because of the restraints of the mammalian lungs, bats cannot maintain high-altitude flight. [49] The wings are highly vascularized membranes, the larger blood vessels visible against the light. [71]

How big are bats?The smallest bat is the Kitti’s Hog Nosed, which has a body weight of two grams (1.1 to 1.3 inches long – a wingspan of 6 to 7 inches). The largest is the Giant Golden-Crowned Flying Fox which weighs 1,300 grams or three pounds (11 inches long – a wingspan of 5.5 feet). Van de Bussche, R. A.; Hoofer, S. R. (2004). "Phylogenetic relationships among recent chiropteran families and the importance of choosing appropriate out-group taxa". Journal of Mammalogy. 85 (2): 321–330. doi: 10.1644/1545-1542(2004)085<0321:Prarcf>2.0.Co;2. Bats are not blind, but some microbat species have small eyes, so they use their echolocation to “see” instead of their eyes. a b c Muller, R. (2004). "A numerical study of the role of the tragus in the big brown bat". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 116 (6): 3701–3712. Bibcode: 2004ASAJ..116.3701M. doi: 10.1121/1.1815133. PMID 15658720.Turbill, C.; Bieber, C.; Ruf, T. (2011). "Hibernation is associated with increased survival and the evolution of slow life histories among mammals". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 278 (1723): 3355–3363. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0190. PMC 3177628. PMID 21450735. Zhang, G.; Cowled, C.; Shi, Z.; Huang, Z.; Bishop-Lilly, K. A.; Fang, X.; Wynne, J. W.; Xiong, Z.; Baker, M. L.; Zhao, W.; Tachedjian, M.; Zhu, Y.; Zhou, P.; Jiang, X.; Ng, J.; Yang, L.; Wu, L.; Xiao, J.; Feng, Y.; Chen, Y.; Sun, X.; Zhang, Y.; Marsh, G. A.; Crameri, G.; Broder, C. C.; Frey, K. G.; Wang, L.-F.; Wang, J. (2012). "Comparative Analysis of Bat Genomes Provides Insight into the Evolution of Flight and Immunity". Science. 339 (6118): 456–460. Bibcode: 2013Sci...339..456Z. doi: 10.1126/science.1230835. PMC 8782153. PMID 23258410. S2CID 31192292. Jones, T. W. (1852). "Discovery That the Veins of the Bat's Wing (Which are Furnished with Valves) are Endowed with Rythmical [ sic] Contractility, and That the Onward Flow of Blood is Accelerated by Each Contraction". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 142: 131–136. doi: 10.1098/rstl.1852.0011. JSTOR 108539. S2CID 52937127. Bondarenco, A.; Körtner, G.; Geiser, F. (2016). "How to Keep Cool in a Hot Desert: Torpor in Two Species of Free-Ranging Bats in Summer". Temperature. 6 (3): 476–483. doi: 10.1080/23328940.2016.1214334. PMC 5079220. PMID 28349087.

The bat is sometimes used as a heraldic symbol in Spain and France, appearing in the coats of arms of the towns of Valencia, Palma de Mallorca, Fraga, Albacete, and Montchauvet. [278] [279] [280] Three US states have an official state bat. Texas and Oklahoma are represented by the Mexican free-tailed bat, while Virginia is represented by the Virginia big-eared bat ( Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus). [281] Economics [ edit ] Turner, Marian (20 June 2011). "Wing hairs help to keep bats in the air". Nature. doi: 10.1038/news.2011.376. ISSN 1476-4687. Pallid bats feast on North America’s Arizona bark scorpion. It is the most venomous scorpion, but the Pallid bat seems immune to its venom. a b Corcoran, A. J.; Barber, J. R.; Conner, W. E. (2009). "Tiger moth jams bat sonar". Science. 325 (5938): 325–327. Bibcode: 2009Sci...325..325C. doi: 10.1126/science.1174096. PMID 19608920. S2CID 206520028.Zhou, X.; etal. (2011). "Phylogenomic Analysis Resolves the Interordinal Relationships and Rapid Diversification of the Laurasiatherian Mammals". Systematic Biology. 61 (1): 150–164. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syr089. PMC 3243735. PMID 21900649.

Gerardo, H.; Hobson, K. A.; Adriana, M. A.; Daniel, E. B.; Sanchez-Corero, V.; German, M. C. (2001). "The Role of Fruits and Insects in the Nutrition of Frugivorous Bats: Evaluating the Use of Stable Isotope Models". Biotropica. 33 (3): 520–528. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2001.tb00206.x. S2CID 247675112. The flying primate hypothesis proposed that when adaptations to flight are removed, megabats are allied to primates by anatomical features not shared with microbats and thus flight evolved twice in mammals. [17] Genetic studies have strongly supported the monophyly of bats and the single origin of mammal flight. [7] [17] Inner systematic [ edit ] Chiroptera a b Bailey, W. J.; Slightom, J. L.; Goodman, M. (1992). "Rejection of the "Flying Primate" Hypothesis by Phylogenetic Evidence from the ε-globin Gene". Science. 256 (5053): 86–89. Bibcode: 1992Sci...256...86B. doi: 10.1126/science.1301735. PMID 1301735. When on the ground, most bats can only crawl awkwardly. A few species such as the New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat and the common vampire bat are agile on the ground. Both species make lateral gaits (the limbs move one after the other) when moving slowly but vampire bats move with a bounding gait (all limbs move in unison) at greater speeds, the folded up wings being used to propel them forward. Vampire bat likely evolved these gaits to follow their hosts while short-tailed bats developed in the absence of terrestrial mammal competitors. Enhanced terrestrial locomotion does not appear to have reduced their ability to fly. [65] Internal systems [ edit ]

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The Chiroptera as a whole are in the process of losing the ability to synthesise vitamin C. [142] In a test of 34 bat species from six major families, including major insect- and fruit-eating bat families, all were found to have lost the ability to synthesise it, and this loss may derive from a common bat ancestor, as a single mutation. [143] [b] At least two species of bat, the frugivorous bat ( Rousettus leschenaultii) and the insectivorous bat ( Hipposideros armiger), have retained their ability to produce vitamin C. [144] Insects [ edit ]

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