{
 "id": "concept/bat",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "bat",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الخفاش",
  "en": "The bat",
  "ur": "چمگادڑ"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الخفاش عند الدميري طائر الليل الذي لا ريش له يولد ولا يبيض، وسماه بعضهم الوطواط، وذكره أهل الحيوان فيما يقع بين الطير والدواب.",
  "en": "The bat in al-Damiri: the night-flyer with no feathers, that bears live young and does not lay eggs — some call it the watwat — placed by the animal writers among what falls between bird and beast.",
  "ur": "دمیری میں چمگادڑ: بغیر پروں کی رات کی اڑنے والی مخلوق جو بچے جیتی ہے اور انڈے نہیں دیتی — بعض اسے وطواط کہتے ہیں — حیوان نگاروں نے اسے پرندے اور جانور کے درمیان رکھا۔"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "living"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [
  "nature-browser",
  "nature-bird"
 ],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "animals-and-mercy"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "natural",
  "sources": [
   "source/hayat-al-hayawan-damiri"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Nature Explorer classical-zoology record (docs/plan/34-nature-browser.md); worded from al-Damiri and al-Qazwini, labelled as tradition",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)",
   "run": "nature-browser-6"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-09",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "work/hayat-al-hayawan",
   "type": "related_to",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "work/ajaib-al-makhluqat",
   "type": "related_to",
   "inverse": false
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "concept/bear",
  "concept/crocodile",
  "concept/heron",
  "concept/peacock",
  "concept/phoenix",
  "concept/salamander",
  "concept/turtle",
  "concept/vulture"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}