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What do you think they are feeding these baby bat orphans?
Credit: Wakelo

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Source: MN DNR Young Naturalists

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This video is awesome! Listen for how echolocation works and how they prey on insects. Citation: BBC

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credit: Steven Alvarez

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Alvarez Photography Print and Stock | 183,000 Grey bats cluster on the wall of Hubbard Cave, TN. An endangered Grey Bat census in Hubbard Cave, Tennessee. Hubbard cave is owned by The Nature Conservancy and is the winter home to 500,000 endangered grey bats. The cave is manged by Cory Holliday (tnc cholliday@tnc.org 615.504.7427) Jim Kennedy BCI jkennedy@batcon.org George (Richie) Wyckoff ATA Conservation george.wyckoff@arnold.af.mil

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183,000 Grey bats cluster on the wall of Hubbard Cave, TN. An endangered Grey Bat census in Hubbard Cave, Tennessee. Hubbard cave is owned by The Nature Conservancy and is the winter home to 500,000 endangered grey bats.

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I wonder if bats have claws?

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I wonder if bats eat people.

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I wonder where bats live.

FACT: The live in caves.  Citation: Book - Bats by Gail Gibbons

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I wonder do bats eat fruit.

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I wonder if they sleep in caves.

FACT: Yes, they sleep in caves. They sleep in dark, quiet places like caves. Citation: Database - PebbleGo

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Where do bats find their cave in winter?

FACT: To find one, they may flay up to 100 miles. Citation: Book - Brown Bats by Christina Leaf

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How do bats hunt?

FACT: They use echolocation to find prey.  Citation: Database - PebbleGo

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What do bats eat?

FACT: A few small animals. Citation - Database: PebbleGo

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I wonder how bats fly.

FACT: Some bats can fly as fact as 15 miles in an hour. Citation: Database - PebbleGo

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WE wonder do bats lay eggs

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WE wonder if bats have rabies.

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We wonder what rabies are.

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I wonder how many bats live together.

FACT: Thousands of bats may use the same cave. Source: Book - Little Brown Bats by Loyle Markovic

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I wonder how big are bats and where do they live

FACT: 5 inches long. They live in a cave.  Source: Book - Bats by Gail Gibbons

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I wonder if bats are predators.

FACT: Bats eat wasps. Yes, they are predators.

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I wonder how bats sleep upside down.

FACT: Toe claws.. Citation: Book - Bats by Gail Gibbons

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Credit: Defenders of Wildlife

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Go to Defenders of Wildlife page to listen to a bat sound byte.

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Bats are the only mammals capable of true flight. With extremely elongated fingers and a wing membrane stretched between, the bat's wing anatomically resembles the human hand. Almost 1,000 bat species can be found worldwide. In fact, bats make up a quarter of all mammal species on earth!

Diet

70% of bats consume insects, sharing a large part of natural pest control. There are also fruit-eating bats; nectar-eating bats; carnivorous bats that prey on small mammals, birds, lizards and frogs; fish-eating bats, and perhaps most famously, the blood-sucking vampire bats of South America.

Population

While some bat populations number in the millions, others are dangerously low or in decline.

Range
Did You Know?
A single little brown bat can eat up to 1000 mosquitoes in a single hour, and is one of the world's longest-lived mammals for its size, with life spans of almost 40 years.

Bats can be found almost anywhere in the world except the polar regions and extreme deserts.

Behavior

Echolocation
Some bats have evolved a highly sophisticated sense of hearing. They emit sounds that bounce off of objects in their path, sending echoes back to the bats. From these echoes, the bats can determine the size of objects, how far away they are, how fast they are traveling and even their texture, all in a split second

Bats find shelter in caves, crevices, tree cavities and buildings. Some species are solitary while others form colonies of more than a million individuals.
Did You Know?
Giant flying foxes that live in Indonesia have wingspans of nearly six feet!

Overwintering
To survive the winter some species of bat migrate, others hibernate, and yet others go into torpor (regulated hypothermia that can last from a few hours to a few months).

Reproduction

Gestation: 40 days - 6 months (bigger bats have longer gestation periods)
Litter Size: Mostly one pup
For their size, bats are the slowest reproducing mammals on Earth. At birth, a pup weighs up to 25 percent of its mother's body weight, which is like a human mother giving birth to a 31 pound baby! Offspring typically are cared for in maternity colonies, where females congregate to bear and raise the young. Male bats do not help to raise the pups

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Bats are the only mammals capable of true flight. With extremely elongated fingers and a wing membrane stretched between, the bat's wing anatomically resembles the human hand. Almost 1,000 bat species can be found worldwide. In fact, bats make up a quarter of all mammal species on earth!

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I wonder what bats eat. What is their habitat?

FACTS: Most bats eat insects and some eat plants and some eat small animals. Bats can be found all over the world except in a very cold northern areas. Citation: Database - PebbleGo

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I wonder what do bats hunt.

FACT: Insects and frogs.  Citation: Book - Bats and Their Homes by Deborah Chase Gibson

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I wonder how wide are their wing span is and how their wings work.

FACT: Between 6in and 15 ft

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I wonder if bats drink blood.

FACT: Only vampire bats drink blood. Citation: PebbleGo

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Vampire Bats Biting People | National Geographic

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Vampire bats in Peru are increasingly biting people, and a National Geographic researcher is trying to find ways to stem the resulting spread of deadly rabies. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world's premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure.

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I wonder how bats find bugs.