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1. Bats - Gray (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
   Provides a short description. 6-99

2. Bats - Gray (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
   Provides a photo. 6-99

3. Bats (Kids' Planet)
   Includes a description and a drawing.

4. Bats (Zoological Society of San Diego)
   Provides a description and includes pictures. 12-04

5. Bats Worksheets (AbcTeach)
   Provides dozens of printable worksheets by theme. 8-01

6. Bats (National Parks Conservation Association)
   Provides a drawing and basic facts. "Bats are the only mammals capable of true flight." 2-02

7. Study: Wind Farms May Put Bats at Risk (BBC News)
   "Bats are at risk from wind turbines, researchers have found, because the rotating blades produce a change in air pressure that can kill the mammals."
   
   "Some research groups are investigating ways to keep bats away from wind farms, and a University of Aberdeen group recently suggested radar emissions might act as a 'bat-scarer'. 08-08

8. Bats (A-Z Animals)
   "Bats are found all around the world and there are hundreds of different species of bat, living in caves and forests, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere. The bumblebee bat found in the jungle of Thailand, is the smallest mammal in the world and weighs less than a penny!" 01-09

9. Bat Facts (CloudForestAlive.com)
   Provides interesting and unusual information about the bat. 2-01

10. Cloud Forest Animals (CloudForestAlive.org)
    Provides pictures and interesting descriptions of animals that inhabit the cloud forests of Central America and the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor. Includes, for example, the spider wasp, guan, olingo, toucanet, howler monkeys, gray fox, viper, fruit bats, bananaquit, cyclosa spider, solitaire, skink, spectacled owl, ant lion, thrush, tink frog, nocternal katydids, chunk-headed snake, anole, trogon, spiny lizard, oropendolas, marine toad, coati, two-toed sloth, mottled owl, army ants, deer, redstarts, and screech owl. 2-01

11. Endangered, Threatened, Vulnerable, or Stable Species (National Parks Conservation Association - GetOutdoors.com)
    Provides factsheets on animals needing protection, including the Grizzly Bears, Gray Wolves, Manatees, Lynx, Dolphins, Bisons, American Crocodiles, Sea Turtles, Killer Whales, Sea Otters, Prairie Dogs, Florida Panthers, Humpback Whales, Bats, Moose, California Condors, Elk, Blue Whales, Caribou, Steller Sea Lions, Bald Eagles, Sharks, Red Wolves, American Alligators, and Black-Footed Ferrets. 2-02

12. Rodents (Wikipedia.org)
    "The order Rodentia is the most numerous of all the branches on the mammal family tree. Currently there are, depending on the authority consulted, between 2000 and 3000 species of rodent—roughly half of all mammal species. Rodents are found in vast numbers on all continents (they are the only placental order other than the bats to reach Australia without human introduction), most islands, and in all habitats bar the oceans."
    
    "Most rodents are small. The tiny African Pygmy Mouse is only 6 cm in length and 7 grams in weight. On the other hand, the Capybara can weigh up to 45 kg (100 pounds) and the extinct Phoberomys pattersoni is believed to have weighed 700 kg."
    
    "Rodents have two incisors in the upper as well as in the lower jaw which grow continuously and must be kept worn down by gnawing; this is the origin of the name, from the Latin rodere, to gnaw." 12-04

13. 09-30-05 SARS Hiding Place Found (Bloomberg.com)
    "Bats that harbor viruses similar to the one that causes SARS may be the ultimate source of the lung disease that killed almost 800 people from late 2002 through 2003, according to a study in Sciencexpress, the online version of Science magazine." 9-05