1. KINGDOM: Animalia PHYLUM: Chordata CLASS: Mammalia
Life Processes - Bat
KINGDOM: Animalia  PHYLUM: Chordata  CLASS: Mammalia    

2. Bat

3. Movement Flight Only mammal that can achieve sustained flight
Wings – webbed forelimbs; membrane is VERY elastic
Digits – bones periodically spaced out among the wing flap; fan-shaped; very flexible due to low calcium levels

4. Body Covering
Fur
Membrane between digits - flexible

5. Support
Skeleton: fingers, humerous, radius, ulna, skull, spine, thumb, elbow joint
Digit bones are very flexible due to lack of calcium

6. Nutrition Bugs - consumes 1/3 of it’s body weight in bugs each day.
Fruit
Water – drink by skimming across surface water and then licking fur
Two sharp teeth to puncture through hard shell of insect

7. Respiration
Breath air

8. Circulation Standard circulatory system; warm-blooded
Heart is extremely large compared to size of body; beats 1400 beats per minute down to 20 beats per minute depending on species
Because Bats hang upside down they have one-way valves in their arteries as well as their veins to help pump the blood through their body.
Valves will close to retain blood in body during inactivity to retain body heat or radiate heat from the body while extremely active such as flying

9. Excretion
Guano - Bat feces so rich in nutrients that they mine it an use it as fertilizer.

10. Responses
Echolocation – Bats use sonography to create a mental picture of what is in front of them.
Eyes – bats can see quite well
Hibernation during cold months
Touch receptors to help fine tune flying and catching insects

11. Reproduction
Live birth
Feed their young through mammary glands