Anatomy of bats

Ear: external organ of hearing, located on both sides of the head. In bats has a huge variety of shapes and sizes.

Swallow: Small elongated projection of skin-covered cartilage, located in front of the ears.

Noseleaf: roughly triangular projection possessing fleshy nose some species of Microchiroptera. It is believed that its function is related to direct the echolocation signals emitted by the nose.

Calcareous Spurs: Boss of cartilage that extends from the ankle of bats, along the edge of the tail membrane, towards the tail. Helps extend the tail membrane, providing support during turns in flight.

Uropatagium: Membrane tail. Formed as the wing skin by elastic membrane stretches between the hind legs and can be wide or narrow, large or small. In some bats, insects that do not hunt, you may be missing altogether.

Cola: It can be long or short, free part of the tail membrane or not, or missing altogether.

Foot: The toes are curved and sharp claws that cling even while they sleep. When a bat hanging upside down, the weight of your body keeping your knees straight and close the jaws to automatically engage and lock sitting on the perch.

Wing membrane or dactilopatagio: Tough and elastic double layer of skin that extends between the body, arms and fingers, forming the structure of the wing.

5th digit: Normal bone almost parallel to the body (corresponding to our little finger).

4th finger: Normal bone extending flange width (corresponding to our ring finger).

3rd finger: Normal bone extending to the wing tip (corresponding to our midst or middle finger).

The 2nd finger: Normal bone on the outer edge of the wing (corresponding to our index finger).

1st finger Thumb, is forward and has a nail.

Wrist: As our wrist is the joint between the bones of the hand and arm.