Amy Presents: Animal Fun Facts

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Disaster Preparedness For Your Pets
Appaloosas! Born to Be Wild

Animal Actors
Dolphins
Mamabird: A Working Mother
Elephant Fun Facts
History of Horses
Grizzly Bears: a Special Refuge at the Moonridge Park
Saving Endangered Animals
Big Cats and Earth Day
Whales
Llamas: the Sweetest Animal on Earth
Cheetah Facts
Giraffes at the Wild Animal Park

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Fun Facts About Bats

Did you know that:

Size

The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

: Lifespan; The common little brown bat of North America is the world's longest-lived mammal for its size, with life spans sometimes exceeding 32 years.
Pest Stopper: A colony of 150 big brown bats can protect local farmers from up to 18 million or more rootworms each summer.
Bees of the Desert: Desert ecosystems rely on nectar-feeding bats as primary pollinators of giant cacti, including the famous organ pipe and saguaro of Arizona.
Friends of the Tropics: Tropical bats are key elements in rain forest ecosystems, which rely on them to pollinate flowers and disperse seeds for countless trees and shrubs.
Myth-buster: All mammals can contract rabies; normally, less than a half of 1% of bats that contract rabies ever bite a person, and then only in self-defense. They pose little threat to people who do not handle them.
No Worries Here: The pallid bat of Western North America is immune to the poisonous seven-inch centipedes upon which it feeds and even to the stings of scorpions.
Bats in Trouble: Nearly 40% of American bat species are threatened or endangered. Around the world, many more are declining at alarming rates.

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