Bats look like rats and have a pair of diaphragm-like wings that allow them to fly like birds.

Bats look a lot like rats with wings, bats have a pig-like snout, and the normal size of a bat is small to medium, with near-black body hair. A bat's wings evolved from its forelimbs during evolution, and are made up of the skin (wing membranes) attached between its elongated claws.

The muzzle of the bat resembles that of a rodent or fox. The outer ears protrude forward, are large, and are very mobile. Bats have a short neck, a broad chest and shoulders with well-developed pectoral meat, and elongated hips and legs. Except for the wing membranes, bats are covered with hair, varying in shades of gray, tan, brown, or black on the back, while the ventral side is lighter in color.

Introduction to bats

Bats, the common name for animals of the order Pteropodidae (Chiroptera), are the second-largest group of mammals after rodents, with 962 extant species in 19 families and 185 genera. In addition to the polar regions and some islands in the ocean spread throughout the world. In the early years, taxonomists divided the bats into the suborder of large pteropods and small pteropods according to their body size, and with the progress of genetic research, they were further divided into the suborders of pteropods and pteropods, and the kinship between bats became clear from this.

Bats are the only mammals that can fly, and the smallest of these is the Kitti's hog-nosed bat (also known as the bumblebee bat), which is considered to be the world's smallest mammal. The "dietary structure" categorizes bats into fruit-eating bats and insect-eating bats, which, as the name suggests, live on fruits and insects, and in addition to insects there are also meat-eating, fish-eating, and blood-sucking modes of survival.