Pee Wee Reports

Bat Day, January 24
At Bat Day at the Library, I tasted bat salad, made from carob and dried fruits (what fruit bats eat). I got to make a bat mask. I made bat and bird flip books. I also made a paper bat to hang up in the bat cave made out of cardboard. I saw a small live bat named Susie Q. I saw a dead bat. I also saw a live big bat. I liked tasting the bat salad the best.

--- Jonathan M.D. Williams, age 7

We started out watching slides of bats, some of them looked really funny. One bat had a banana in its mouth. We learned that bats with big ears are insect eaters because they use their ears to echo-locate bugs. Some bug eating bats can eat up to 600 bugs per hour! Bats with big eyes are fruit eaters, they use their eyes to find fruit.

We learned that bats are useful because they pollinate plants that only bloom at nighttime so hummingbirds and bees can't pollinate them.

--- Eric Rafla-Yuan, age 8