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Bats use flight for capturing prey, breeding, avoiding predators, and long-distance migration. Bat wing morphology is often highly specialized to the needs of the species.

Bats are the only mammals specialized for flight for a few reasons. They have specialized forelimbs, membranes, large pectoral muscles and large back muscles used for powering their wingbeats in flight.^[20] Both of these muscle groups are similar in appearance among vertebrates. However, bats have a unique muscle group known as the occipito-pollicalis, a necessary muscle group for mammalian flight.