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Bats

Bats. Chapin’s Free-Tailed Bat . False Vampire Bat . Townsend’s Big Eared Bat . Pallid Bat . Grey Headed Flying Fox . Honduran White . Wahlberg’s Epauleted Bat . Vocabulary .

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Bats

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  1. Bats

  2. Chapin’s Free-Tailed Bat False Vampire Bat Townsend’s Big Eared Bat Pallid Bat

  3. Grey Headed Flying Fox Honduran White Wahlberg’s Epauleted Bat

  4. Vocabulary • Membranes – is a thin, pliable layer of tissue covering surfaces or separating or connecting regions, structures, or organs of an animal. • Mammals – give live birth, have hair or fur, vertebrates, feed young with milk. • Nocturnal – means that the animals are active at night. • Hibernate – means sleep during the winter. • Echolocation – a method used to locate objects at night.

  5. Diagram of Bats

  6. Bat Habitats • Bats feed at night (they are "nocturnal") and spend the day sleeping in caves or in tree tops.  The place where a bat sleeps is called its "roost".   • Bats hang UPSIDE DOWN from their roosts when they sleep. • Although some bats roost in groups of only one or two, for the most part bats are very sociable animals.  They usually sleep together in huge groups.   • Some caves may be home to thousands of bats.  The largest bat colony in the world is in Bracken Cave, Texas.  During the summer, this cave is home to as many as 20 MILLION Mexican free-tailed bats.  That's a LOT of bats!

  7. Bat Facts • Bats are the only mammal that can actually fly.  Some bats can fly up to forth miles an hour. • There are more then nine hundred types of bats.  • Some Bats benefit people in several ways.  Some feed on harmful insects while others pollinate flowers as they fly from flower to flower.  seeds dropped by fruit bats may sprout into plants. • Other bats eat fruit, fish and even bats! • Bats can live for up to 30 years. • Bats have a wing span up to six feet. • There are more then 900 types of bats. 

  8. More Bat Facts • Bats do not build nests.  In winter, when insects are scarce, bats hibernate in cool parts of buildings, caves and hollow trees.  They get into these places by creeping into cracks and crannies as small as one quarter of an inch. • Bats rarely live in belfries.  They prefer somewhere quiet, not drafty and free from cobwebs. • Bats hang upside down from their feet. • During the winter  some bats migrate to warmer climates, while others hibernate for months.  When a bat hibernates its body temperature drops, its heartbeat and breathing slows too.  Like the bear, a hibernating bat lives off the fat of its body.

  9. Micro Bats • Micro bats use echolocation. • Micro bats eat insects. • Larger micro bats hunt fish, birds, frogs, and lizards.

  10. Mega Bats • Also known as Fruit bats. • They have large eyes. • They don’t use the echolocation for food. • Mega bats eat fruit, and nectar from flowers. • They have an excellent sense of smell. • Have smaller ears than the Micro bats. • They also have larger eyes than the Micro Bats.

  11. Echolocation

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