Only bats among mammals can actually fly. Other mammals may glide for short distances, such flying squirrels and sugar gliders, but only bats have the ability to sustain powered flight by flapping their wings.

As the only mammal in the animal kingdom having the ability to fly, bats are appealing creatures.

They can glide and navigate easily in the air because to their long forelimbs that have a membrane of skin stretched between their fingers.

More than 1,400 various kinds of bats have been discovered identified worldwide, ranging from fruit bats to those that consume insects like the common pipistrelle.

Many bat species are nocturnal using echolocation  find food in the dark

by pollinating plant maintaining insect populations, and functioning as environmental health indicators, bats execute critical roles in ecosystem.