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Latina University Computer Assisted Translation 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.
