Bats

Sonar is a system that locates objects by transmitting sound waves and detecting the waves when they are reflected off of objects. Bats and many other animals, such as whales and dolphins, use natural sonar to navigate and capture

Two words: Weaning time!! That's right, if you hear cows and calves bellering and bawling at each other all day and all night that is a usual indication that the producer has initiated the weaning process. But don't worry, the noise won't last forever, and usually ends within a few days to a week or so. You'll just have to put up with a few sleepless nights that's all, just like your neighbors and the producer themselves!!

Bats are one of nature's most efficient and eco-friendly methods of keeping mosquito populations under control. Just one bat can eat more than 1,000 mosquitoes in an hour.

an adaptation of a brown bat is that it's dark so at night when the other nocturnal animals are looking for food they can't see it

Most bats are not at all harmful, but actually helpful, as they eat destructive insects. Three of the thousands of species of bats are "vampire bats" which consume blood; they rarely attack humans, but do occasionally prey on livestock. All three species live in tropical or subtropical climates in the Americas ranging from Mexico to Argentina. Also, while very few bats are actually infected by rabies, a substantial fraction of human cases of rabies in the United States result from bat bites.

A bat is a consumer as it takes things in, or consumes. It does not decompose other things and does not give out food or water or other resources.

Yes Bats are mammals in fact, they're the only flying mammals on Earth!

Bats can come in various dark colours like : black or brown.

Most eat fruits, flower nectar and vertebrates.

There is one species of bats that does actually eat blood and it's called a Vampire Bat. They puncture the veins of mammals (usually cattle) and lap up the blood.

Bird chirps are within our audible hearing range, but bats chirps which they use for echolocation is an ultra sound (above 22kHz) and is inaudible to humans without specialist equipment.

The fisherman bats live in hollow tree roosts and in other similar areas as well.

The majority of bats feed on flying insects such as moths but some bats eat fruit or fish and vampire bats drink blood.

There are many different examples of insects and animals with an exoskeleton. Like ants, bees, and snails.

It is important to understand how animals protect themselves. A long tailed bat prevents itself by flying away, hiding in small places, and defending itself with its claws.

As I'm sure you know, some spiders make webs that catch their prey. Other spiders catch their prey in other ways. Once caught the spider may wrap its prey up in its silk.

Spiders next inject their prey with digestive fluids that turn their insides to a sort of mush. The pre-digested fluid is then available for the spider to suck out.

Some of the larger spiders have tooth-like projections on their mouthparts. These spiders can chew the body of their prey to make more of it get digested and made available for them to suck into their stomachs.

Yes, there are three species of bats proven to be piscivores. The greater bullfrog bat (Noctillio leporinus) of Central and South America, Mexican fishing bat (Myotis vivsei) of Baja California, Mexico,and Rickett's big-footed bat (Myotis ricketti)of China. Other bat species may opportunistically feed on fish as they trawl for insects across the surface of waterways.

There are a few different similarities between the wing of a butterfly and the wing of a bat. Both are used to fly for example.

This is a common fear about bats and a common misconception. Bats use an ability called echolocation to determine obstacles in their path. This echolocation is so acute that a bat can manoeuvre within a millimetre of any object while flying. Although bats may occasionally fly very close to a person's face while hunting for insects, they do not get stuck in the hair.

Most bats breed in there second year, some don't breed until they are seven to ten years old.

Bats can't see very well, they use sonar

In one night, it consumes nearly a third of its own body weight. Sometimes, fruit bats may fly up to 25 miles away from there roost for food.

Yes, bats can and do run. See http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March05/Riskin.bats.snd.html

Yes while going from one fruit tree to the next they are transferring pollen that has stuck to their bodies. Yes. Bats are important pollinators of plants. They also produce a nitrogen-rich fertilizer known as guano.

Bats are mammals. They breastfeed their babies.

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it is where the bat sends out a sound that bounces of it's prey (moths, midges or mosquitoes) and back to the bat so it knows exactly where it's prey is.

Did you know a pipistrelle bat can eat 3000 flying insects in one night!

• Garlic - will ward off
• Silver cross - will burn or ward off
• Wooden stake through the heart - will kill
• Decapitation of the head - will kill
• Prayer/House of God - will ward off
• Eating the grave dirt of a vampire & smearing oneself with the vampires blood - ward off and kill vampires bite
• Sunlight/Fire - will burn and kill
• Steel placed in the mouth, over the eyes, over the ears, and in between the fingers at time of burial - will ward off
• Placing a crucifix inside coffin - will ward off and stop the vampire from rising from it's grave
• Placing blocks under the chin to prevent the body from eating the shroud - will ward off
• Nailing clothes to coffin walls - will ward off
• Exorcism - will kill
• Holy water - will burn or sometimes can kill
• Repeating of funeral service - will ward off
• Falling snow - will burn and kill
• Rain or running water (rivers) - will burn and kill.
• A Vampire cannot and will not drink the blood of the dead if he knows what's good for him (slightly deadly too).