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Bats: Glossary
A
- audible
- able to be heard or to hear
C
- Chiroptera
- scientific name for bats
- carnivores
- meat eaters
- clotting
- the process of blood that allows it to stop flowing from an injury
- conservation
- protecting nature and its resources
E
- echo
- a sound reflected from a surface
- echolocation
- natural ability of some animals to use echoes for locating food and navigation
- excrement
- body waste or poop
F
- fangs
- sharp teeth that can pierce food or skin
- fertilizer
- a material that improves the soil
G
- germinate
- to begin growth
- guano
- bat poop (see "excrement")
H
- habitat
- environment where an animal lives
L
- litter
- a group of animal babies born at one time to a mother animal
M
- mammal
- animals that have live births, feed milk to their young and have hair or fur
N
- nocturnal
- animals that hunt at night and sleep during the day
P
- pollinate
- to move pollen from one part of a plant to another
- puncturing
- to poke a hole
R
- rabies
- an infectious disease
- rodents
- small nibbling mammals such as mice, rats, and squirrels
- roost
- bat living area
S
- saliva
- spit
- stroke
- a medical condition where a blood vessel in the brain bursts or is blocked, causing damage to the brain
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