difference between bird and bat
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What is the difference between a bird and a bat? Birds lay eggs but bats are mammals giving birth to live young, just like us. Before settlers, in New Zealand, there were originally no mammals apart from a bat, and most of the birds were flightless ! Not many people know that !!! 508 Views How does the flight of bats differ from that of birds? What is the difference between a bird and a dinosaur? What are the differences between a bird and a fly? What are the different adaptations of bats? What is the difference between birds and humans? From a Linnaean phylogenetic standpoint, the differences start at the Class level: bats are of the class Mammalia, and birds are of the class Aves. That’s pretty high up in the classification system, so one can take from that that there are numerous differences. Similarities occur as both birds and bats are members of the phylum Chordata: animals with backbones. Major differences between birds and bats stem from their membership in different classes: Mammalia: as the name implies, have mammary glands that females use to produce milk to feed their young. except for the duckbilled platypus, mammals give live birth through the female’s vagina. Bats give live birth. most have hair, with exceptions. Bats have hair. quadrupeds. four legs, or two arms and two legs. In bats, the arms have become specialized, with very thin skin growing between the fingers to allow actual flight, as opposed to gliding. Aves: most have feathers, distinct from hair. lay hard-shelled eggs, from which their young hatch. bipeds: two legs with two wings. Wings may or may not render the animal capable of flight through the air. gather food to feed their young.
Bats came from the Chiroptera and Aves family. Bats are webbed structured flying animals while birds are feathered winged animals. Bats are mammals, so they don’t lay eggs, compared to birds that are known as egg-laying animals. When flying, bats don’t flap their forelimbs completely compared to birds. Generally, bats have teeth which help them when eating while birds have beaks in picking up food and eating them. Bats are nocturnal animals; they hunt and go around their business at night and sleep during the day while birds work and hunt for food during daytime and sleep at night.