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Bats (Movie)
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Bats are the only mammals that can fly. Right now the image of the flying squirrel may be passing through your mind, but they do not really fly, they only glide. Bats are a member of the mammalian order Chiroptera, meaning "hand-wing". Bones in a bats wing are the same as a humans arm and hand, but the bats fingers are very elongated and are connected by a double membrane of skin which forms the wing. The flying foxes bat of the Old World tropics has a wing-span of up to six feet and can weigh 1.5 kg! The smallest bat is the Bumble Bee bat of Thailand and weighs less than a penny.
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Bats are the only mammals that fly— able to prey upon flying insects that are active at night by bouncing high frequency sound waves off them. Part of the sound wave is reflected back toward the bat, which interprets these sounds with their large ears to locate prey. Using their wings as a scoop, a single bat can capture thousands of mosquitoes each night.
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Bats eat up to half their body weight nightly. Nursing mother bats are known to eat up to 125% of their body weight in insects nightly. Could you eat over 400 quarter pounders each night! A conservative estimate for the number of insects would be 13 tons eaten in one summer over a 100 square mile area of New England. The Mexican free-tailed bats from Bracken Cave, Texas eat 250 tons nightly! That's a lot of insects considering an insects weight!
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Mexican Free-tailed Bats live in caves in the western and southern United States, Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, central Chile and Argentina. Their colonies are the largest congregations of mammals in the world. The largest colony is found at Bracken Cave, north of San Antonio, Texas, with nearly 20 million bats; research indicates that bats from this colony congregate in huge numbers at altitudes between 600 and 3,200 ft (180-1000 m), and even as high as 10,000 ft (3000 m). It is believed that these bats are feeding on migrating cotton bollworm moths, a severe agricultural pest[1].
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Bats stars Lou Diamond Phillips (La Bamba, Undertow), who has been relegated to straight-to-video films for a while now. And this would have been one too, had it not been the debut film for Destination Films, a new indie company. Phillips plays a cigar-chompin' sheriff of a small Texas town terrorized by mutant bats.
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The problem with Bats is that it tries to take itself seriously. Not helping at all are the special effects. The bat attacks are a blur. Nothing is clear, and the camera jerks violently back and forth, so you cannot see anything. The CGI bats you can see are not very realistic, and the puppet bats used are laughable. Jimmy's expected wise cracks are not even that funny.
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