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How are bats born?

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Do they come from a egg or from birth?

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  1. Bats are mammals so it is a live birth.  Born to cling!


  2. Bat babies

    Some male bats sing to attract a mate. Females have only one baby, called a pup, per year, although twins or quadruplets occur in a few species. Some tropical bats can have two pregnancies a year. Mothers nurse their pup for two to six months, then teach it to fly and find food.

  3. Bats are not birds,so they do not lay eggs,they give birth to live young.The babies are naked and blind when born.

  4. The gestational periods of bats are relatively long, ranging from 40 days to 8 months. Most bats give birth once a year. Many have only one offspring, but some have twins, and the hairy-tailed bats have triplets. The reproductive cycles of hibernating bats are often interrupted. Some hibernating bats, such as the little brown bats, mate in the fall, then hibernate throughout the winter months. The sperm remains dormant in females until these bats arouse in early spring, at which time fertilization takes place. In other bats, such as the straw-colored fruit bat and the Mexican fruit bat, fertilization occurs immediately after mating, but then the fertilized egg stops developing for several months.

    Bats are born bottom-first-an arrangement that minimizes the chances of the wings getting tangled in the birth canal. Newborns are enormous, often weighing in at 25 or 30 percent of their mother's weight. For the first few days of its life, the baby remains upside-down, suckling at its mother's breast. Since most bats are born singly, it would disturb the mother's balance if her newborn hung on one side. To remedy this, the baby hangs at an angle across the chest, its mouth grasping one breast and its hind legs hooked under the opposite armpit.

  5. well first the stork comes and drops the baby, and then ur butt falls off, and u like have to dig through the butt and theres the baby

  6. Bats are mammals .. so they give birth to ilve young and suckle them (with their milk)

    genrally birds , and repltiles (eg a crocodlile) lay eggs never mammals although there are a few exceptions

    eg "the egg laying playtypus" .
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