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Characteristics of bats
The body of these animals is usually completely covered with very short hair that serves to
protect against moisture and cold. Then you have skin membranes that come from the front
legs to the back. The fingers of the front legs are extremely thin and extend across the
membrane, helping in this way to better control the flight, in addition to ensuring that the
extension can be easily collected at times when it is not flying. Depending on the species
we are in, certain parts of the body vary, such as the ears, with specimens with very large
ears in proportion to their head, and other bats with tiny ones.
Characteristics of spiders
The anatomy of spiders coincides broadly with that of other arachnids, that is, with the body
divided into two regions or tagmas, prosoma (or cephalothorax) and opisthosoma (or
abdomen) and the same number and type of appendages, ie , a pair of chelicerae, a pair of
pedipalps and four pairs of locomotor legs. Spiders have body lengths ranging between 0.5
mm and 9.0 cm that reach some tropical migalomorphs, which catch small birds; with
extended legs, some of these may exceed 25 cm. During the Upper Carboniferous and the
Permian there were spiders of more than 50 cm.3 The largest spider in the world is the
Theraphosa blondi, or goliat tarantula that can measure up to 30 cm (including the legs),
and is native to America.