Head of Phyllostoma grayi from Darwin's zoology of the voyage of Beagle. Phyllostoma is a South American genus of phyllostomine bats from which the subfamily and the family each takes its name. Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera whose forelim
Head of Phyllostoma grayi from Darwin's zoology of the voyage of Beagle. Phyllostoma is a South American genus of phyllostomine bats from which the subfamily and the family each takes its name. Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera whose forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are the second largest order of mammals (after the rodents), representing about 20% of all classified mammal species worldwide, with about 1,240 bat species divided into two suborders: the less specialized and largely fruit-eating megabats, or flying foxes, and the highly specialized and echolocating microbats. About 70% of bat species are insectivores. Most of the rest are frugivores, or fruit eaters. A few species, such as the fish-eating bat, feed from animals other than insects, with the vampire bats being hematophagous, or feeding on blood.
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