Week 9: Listening skill-Bats, flying mammal

Bat: Flying mammals

 In this world, there are many species of mammals. One of them is bat species. The United Nation has discovered about 2011-2012 years of bats. The campaign was laughed last year as a way to protect flying mammals of the world. The bats are the one of flying mammals that people fear. Only three bats species feed on blood. So, most people do not like the bats because they think the bats have been linked to the death darkness and Vampire such as the movie about vampire(The Twilight). The bats can be found in many places such as the cities, deserts, grasslands and forests. There are 1,200 bats species. The smallest spicy is in the Southeast Asia. The bumblebee is long about 30 millimeters. The largest bat is the Giant Golden Crowned Flying Fox. People think the bats will concern them and increase diseases. In this article, I would like to talk about the bats, one of flying mammals. There are main content about how the bats live, benefits of them, and disease spread over the states.

 There are benefits for the bats.  Bats are important for agriculture and our environment. They can spread seeds. In addition, they can control insects because they eat huge insects that damaged crop such as brown bats. According to report, bats can help American farmers save much money from reducing insects lead to less using the chemicals. Next, bats eat insects, feed on fruits, and nectars of flowers.  They are not blind. Most bats communicate and find their way using sound echoes. They produce noise too loud and can know the distances of an object using the sound echoes. When the bats travel in the darkness, they can see using sound. More than 50 bats species are under threat because they are damaged by disease named white nose syndrome last five years. Therefore, the human destroy the natural environments where the bats lived. The white nose syndrome spread at least over the nineteen states and part of Canada. However, Leslie Sturges, director of Bat World NOVA in Washington D.C. area, likes to save bats’ life. She cares the injured bats at her home. She hopes to protect them and bring them to good environment. When the bats look healthy, she move them to area nearly her home. One of her bats named Shaggy.  She cares it until it can eat well. She is nice woman.

  The bats are important for the environmental systems. Most people usually think the bats are bad and affect to the environments. Only three bats species feed on blood. People should make understand how they live without wrong attitude. People usually linked the bats to the death, the night and vampire on movie. In fact, their thought is wrong. The bats are helpful for doing farming because they eat huge insects that destroy products from agricultures. In my opinion, I think we should protect flying mammal such as the bats. They are good for the natural environment but they are damaged by white nose syndrome and destroyed by the human. What do you think about protection the bats species? Do you agree on this article? Why can you do for protecting the bats damaged by destroyed by the human? How?

Reference:

David Keltner.  Bats, Flying Mammals.  Assessed from: http://
            www.manythings.org/voa/v/ja/ (On July 30 th, 2013).