Transcript Final Presentation

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Final Project:
The truth and
fiction of Bats
Brief summary of the article…
• Most of the people think that bats are the
most disgusting animal of the world.
• they have a great diversity and an
extraordinary behavior.
• We usually think of Dracula when we talk
about Bats.
• The Mayans associated the bats with
darkness
• In Greek mythology, bats were sacred
animals for Persephone, who was daughter of
Zeus and wife of Hades, sovereign of the
world of dead.
• In the Chinese mythology and for the
European gypsies, they represent good luck
and everlasting life.
• The origin and evolution of bats is uncertain
because they are not represented in fossils.
• Bats rest upside-down
• There are almost a thousand of different
species of bats in the world, divided in
eighteen families.
• In Panama there have been found one
hundred twenty different bats’ species
• In the entire Europe there are only thirty
different species
Vocabulary…
• Murciélago vampiro
• Mayas
• Camazots
• Bichos malos
• Fósil
• Época del Eoceno
• Copa de los árboles
• Membrana
• Vuelo activo
• Vampire bat
• Mayans
• Mayan’ God of the
dead
• Evil creatures
• Fossils
• Time of Eocene (60
million years back)
• Treestops
• Membrane
• Active flight
• Endémicas
• Filostomídeos
• Guano
• Tonatia Silvicola
• Endemic
• Kind of bats that
exists in Panama
• Bats’ dung
• Bat’ specie that
thinks that the
hollows in the
termites’ nests are
good houses.