--- title: Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumblebee bat and tent-makers — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumblebee bat and tent-makers», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Bats are the only mammals that truly fly. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampi… # Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumblebee bat and tent-makers Lesson 314 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/0/) — Bats are the only mammals that truly fly. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/1/) — Their wing is a hand: four very long fingers hold up a thin skin, and a short clawed thumb sticks out at the top. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/2/) — There are more than 1,400 kinds, about one in five of all mammal kinds, from flying foxes with wings as wide as a grown-up's arms to a bat as light as two paper clips. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/3/) — Some eat insects, some fruit, some nectar, and three kinds drink blood. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/4/) — Many plants need bats to carry their pollen or spread their seeds. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/5/) — Hang from a climbing frame by your knees and you get tired in a minute. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/6/) — A bat sleeps all day upside down without effort, because its toes lock shut on their own. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/7/) — Flying foxes are big fruit bats with wings up to about 1.5 metres across; they find fruit and nectar with good eyes and noses, not echoes, and spread seeds and pollen across forests. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/8/) — Flying foxes roost together by day in noisy camps of thousands, where many eyes watch for danger; in heatwaves many can die, and trained volunteers try to help them. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/9/) — There are more than 1,400 kinds of bat, about one in five mammal kinds; only rodents have more kinds. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/10/) — A bat's wing is a hand: four long fingers hold up the skin and a short clawed thumb sticks out; the skin stretches between the fingers, the body and the legs, and the name Chiroptera means hand-wing. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/12/) — Vampire bat spit stops blood going thick and sticky, so the cut keeps flowing, and scientists have studied it to make new medicines. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/13/) — A vampire bat that misses its meal for about two nights can starve; roost-mates that fed bring up blood to share, often with bats that shared with them before. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/14/) — Vampire bats can walk, run and hop on all fours, creeping up on a sleeping animal on foot, while most bats are clumsy on the ground. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/15/) — Kitti's hog-nosed bat, the bumblebee bat of Thailand and Myanmar, weighs about 2 grams and is one of the smallest mammals, along with the Etruscan shrew. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/16/) — Tent-making bats bite along a big leaf so it folds down into a tent that keeps off rain and hides them; Honduran white bats sleep under leaves where green light makes their white fur look green. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/17/) — Bats hang by their feet with tendons that lock their toes shut, so hanging takes no effort, and they drop into the air to take off because their legs are too weak to run into flight. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/18/) — Wild bananas, durians and agave plants are pollinated by bats; bat flowers are pale, strong-smelling and open at night, and one small nectar bat has a tongue about one and a half times as long as its body. - ← previous: [Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale, orca, beluga and beaked whales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/313-whales-by-kind-the-toothed-whales-sperm-whale-orca-beluga-and-beaked-whales/) - next →: [Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why never to pick one up](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/315-bats-near-home-pipistrelles-noctules-bat-boxes-and-why-never-to-pick-one-up/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)