Bats: A Glimpse on Their Astonishing Morphology and Lifestyle

Bats (zool. Chiroptera) are unique in the zoological group of Mammalia with respect to their morphology, their lifestyle, their capacity to fly and to orientate themselves during the darkest nights and by the fact that they succeeded in extending their biotopes over all continents except for Antarctica and the Northern arctic regions. Due to their nocturnal activity and their resting, respectively, sleeping during daytime at hidden places, information on this group remained scarce compared to other mammalians. Thus this chapter aims to throw some short glimpses on their morphology and on some other astonishing peculiarities.