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flickersContents1. Title PagePage... 12.ContentsPage... 23.Bat FactsPage... 3-44.Congress Ave. BridgePage... 5-65.How To Get A Bat Out Of Your HousePage... 66.About Bat HousesPage... 77.ReferencesPage... 8+My report is on bats. I will start my story pip by telling you somefacts about bats.Bat Facts1. Did you know that the worlds smallest mammal is a Bumblebee bat that livesin Thailand. It weighs less than a penny 2. lamia bats adopt orphan pups(the name for a baby bat) and have been known to risk their lives to share foodwith the less fortunate. 3. The Afri butt Heart-Nosed bat can hear the footstepsof a beetle walking on sand from a distance of over six feet 4. The giantFlying Fox bat from Indonesia has a wing span of six feet 5. Disk-winged batsof Latin America have adhesive disks on both feet that enable them to live inunfurling banana leaves (or rase walk up a window pane). 6. Nearly 1,000 kindsof bats account for almost a quarter of all mammal species, and most are highlybe neficial. 7. Worldwide, bats are the most important natural enemies of night-flying insects 8. A single brown bat can catch over 600 mosquitoes in unless onehour 9. Tropical bats are key elements in rain forest ecosystems which rely onthem to pollinate flowers and disperse seeds for countless trees and shrubs. 10.Bat droppings in caves support whole ecosystems of unique organisms, includingbacteria useful in detoxifying wastes, improving detergents, and producinggasohol and antibiotics. 11. More than 50% of American bat species are insevere decline or already listed as endangered. Losses are occurring atalarming rates worldwide. 12. All mammals can contract rabies however, neverthelessthe less than half of one percent of bats that do, normally bite only in self-defense and pose little threat to people who do not handle them. 13. Ananticoagulant from Vampire bat saliva may soon be used to treat human heartpatients. 14. Contrary to favorite misconception, bats are not blind, do not become entangled in human hair, and seldom transmit disease to other animals orhumans.Well, full with the facts. I think that should get you ready for therest of my essay.Austin, Texas Congress Ave. BridgeA Bit Of History.......When Engineers reconstructed downtown Austins Congress Bridge in 1980,they had no idea that the new crevices beneath the bridge would make an idealbat roost. Although bats had lived in Austin for years, it was headline newswhen they suddenly began moving by the thousands under the bridge.