Nineteen-Day Fast to be the one foretold by the Báb, accepted the fast, but altered many of its details and regulations. The Bahá'í fast resembles fasting practices of several other religions. Lent is a period of fasting for Christians, Yom Kippur and many other holidays for Jews, and the fast of Ramadan is practiced by Muslims. The Bahá'í fasting most resembles the fast of Ramadan, except that the period of fasting is defined as a fixed Bahá'í month, whereas Muslims fast during a lunar month, whose specific Gregorian dates vary from year to year. Bahá'u'lláh established the guidelines of the fast in
Bogota fruit-eating bat It is often found in montane forests. It is currently evaluated as least concern by the IUCN. It meets the criteria for this designation because it has a large geographic range; it occurs in protected areas; and its population size is not likely declining at a rapid rate. Major threats to this species, if any exist, have not been identified. Bogota fruit-eating bat The Bogota fruit-eating bat ("Dermanura bogotensis") is a species of bat found in South America. This bat was described in 1906 by Danish mammalogist Knud Andersen. He described it as a subspecies of the Gervais's fruit-eating bat,