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Monday 2 September 2019

Vampire animals? - Literacy 2019


WALT - Justify Our Thinking On A Topic

Where do vampire bats live?
Vampire bats are able to live in a wide variation of warm habitats. They mostly like to live in an undisturbed rainforest, caves or hollow trees.

What percentage of bats find food each night?
Image result for vampire bats70% of a group of bats do find food at night and studies
have manifested that 30% of the bats in a group will not find food at night. That leads to the fed bats vomiting up some of it's meal for the unfed bat in it's kind.

Write TWO new questions like the ones above. You must be able to find the answers in the text.

3. What is the average size of a bat?
A vampire bat's body is the size of a man's thumb and is about 20 cm wing-span.
In fact, bat wings are lengthy fingers covered with thin skin.

4. What is the process of the Vampire Bats taking blood?
The bat walks or hops up to it and then climbs up to discover an appropriate meal place. These bats have unique thermal sensors in their mouths to locate veins near the skin. They lick the site with their tongue, strip off hair, and then slice a piece of circular skin with their razor sharp teeth.

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