My reading

 

This is my reading. This is my story map. It is of a bat. She is drinking blood. I did it on google drawings.

She is drinking blood so she can go back and feed the other bats. The things I learnt about these bats are that their names are vampire bats and they drink blood. They do not bite they make a little cut in the skin and then drink the blood.

It is related to this story.....

The Vampire Bat by Hilton Ayrey 

The vampire bat was hungry. There had not been much food lately for her colony of bats that lived in a small cave in the rainforest. A big forest fire had scared off a lot of the wildlife so hunting for food was not easy. Those bats who managed to find something during the night would vomit it up and share it around, knowing that the other bats would do the same for them. 

It was night-time now, time to leave the cave and search for food. With a flurry of wings, the bats headed off in different directions. They were looking for just one thing, the blood of live animals and they needed to be very careful not to wake their prey while they were feeding off them. As she flew through the forest close to the ground, the vampire bat listened carefully for the regular breathing of sleeping animals. She found a wild pig asleep in the undergrowth and landed close by preparing herself for the attack. 

She used her very strong hind legs to spring into the air and landed lightly on the pig’s back. Using the special heat sensors in her nose, she found a blood vessel close to the skin. She licked the pig’s skin with her tongue, shaved off the animal hair with her very sharp teeth and sliced into the skin. The bite was painless and the sleeping pig didn't wake up. She relaxed and began to lap up the blood that flowed from the bite. 

She greedily fed for thirty minutes. Her stomach stretched and stretched until she had almost doubled her body weight. All the time she was feeding she was urinating to get rid of the extra water in the blood. When she could take no more, she rested for a moment and then flopped back down on the ground. The pig slept on, unaware of what had just happened. With some difficulty, she took off and flew back to the cave where she rejoined the others who were returning from their hunt. 

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