Common Tent-making Bats (Uroderma bilobatum) make their home in leaves they modify to collapse in a pleasing fashion. The mothers have been found to nudge their pups away from them when it’s time for them to ween and fledge.

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The Tiny Serotine is aptly named.

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Blood is not very nutritious; it's mostly water and proteins and can contain pathogens. Common Vampire Bats (Desmodus rotundus) get some help processing this unique diet from the microbes living in their guts.

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The Common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus) may use prey-generated sounds, like breathing, to help locate potential victims. They may return to the same hosts night after night. We caught this guy on his way to visit some cattle.

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To maximize energy efficiency, bats often time their sonar calls with exhalation, which coincides with the upstroke of the wingbeat cycle.

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White-nose syndrome, a fungal disease which devastates bat populations has been detected in a tenth species (pictured: Myotis velifer). The fungus has been detected on other bat species, but they don't seem to experience the same massive fatalities as some other cave-dwelling bats.

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Many bats have elaborate structures on their faces to direct their echolocation. These nose-leafs are actually quite soft and flexible!

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The term batshit was well established by the 1950s as a synonym for bullshit in military parlance. Its usage in conjunction with irrational behavior came later, perhaps due to the works of Hunter S. Thompson and Stanley Kubrick, or the older idiom bats in the belfry to connote senility.

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Quantifying animal intelligence is difficult. In some cognitive tests, flying foxes perform as well as dogs. They certainly are curious!

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/r/batfacts will return regularly in October for Bat Appreciation Month. Anyone who posts between now and November 1 will receive special flair!

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Up to sixty Tent-making Bats (Uroderma bilobatum) will use a tent at any one time. These tents may last as long as two months.

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Due to its large size and the high aspect ratio of its wings, the Western Mastiff Bat (Eumops perotis) cannot drink from water sources less than 30m long.

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Adult Black Flying Foxes (Pteropus alecto) can have a wingspan of over a meter, but weigh less than a kilogram!

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Bats have been around for at least 50 million years. Early naturalists grouped them with primates and rodents, but more recent genetic evidence places their common ancestor closer to cats and horses!

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The Bumblebee Bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai) is the smallest species of bat and arguably the world's smallest mammal. It is about 3cm long and weighs about 2g.

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The Fish-eating Myotis (Myotis vivesi) can drink sea water. It hunts in marine environments and its feces changes color depending on whether its eaten fish, shrimp, or insects.

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Some bat research involves applying bands to captured bats. If the bats are captured again, we can learn something about where it has been, especially useful information for migratory species. There is some concern that banding can negatively impact bats so new methods are always being explored.

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These small vials contain tissue samples from bat wings for genetic testing. Based on recaptures of sampled bats, the holes in the membrane usually grows back within 2-3 weeks, so there are no long-term effects.

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The Greater Sac-winged Bat (Saccopteryx bilineata) roosts out in the open, relying on camouflage to keep it safe. They will even sway in the breeze, though these two are in a covered space protected from the wind.

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Little Red Flying Foxes (Pteropus scapulatus) are social creatures and roost together in tight clusters.

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To avoid deafening themselves with their loud calls, bats restrict the movement by quickly tensing the muscles in their ears. The contraction/relaxation cycle lasts for only a few milliseconds and can be repeated more than 100 times a second. Humans have a slower version of this same reflex.

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Some breeds of bats can actually change the physical structure of their ears to better hear their environment, going from one extreme configuration to another in just a tenth of a second!

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Bats are exceptionally vulnerable to extinction, in part because they are among the slowest-reproducing mammals on Earth for their size. Most produce only one pup per year. Vandalism and disturbance of roosting caves, loss of trees, and hunting of bats all seriously threaten remaining populations.

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Tendons connect muscle to bone and are covered with a tendon sheath. For most instances, the sheath and tendon move freely, but in the hindlimbs of bats they have grooves which lock together like a ratchet when flexed. This tendon locking mechanism allows bats to hang without exerting effort.

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Bats of the Furipteridae family have vestigial thumbs. They eat insects.

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Yawning is found in all mammals. In some bats it may play a role in social communication and courtship, in addition to looking absolutely adorable.

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Why are baby bats wrapped in blankets? There are several reasons! Mother bats wrap their pups in their wings and the blankets emulate this, making the pups feel secure. It also keeps the pups warm and makes them easier for the rescuers to handle.

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This week /r/batfacts surpassed 6000 subscribers. That's more than the world population of the Rodrigues Flying Fox (Pteropus rodricensis).

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Bats are mammals like us and drink milk as pups. They don't lay eggs or build nests.

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Livingstone's fruit bats (Pteropus livingstonii) are critically endangered, with only 1260 left in the wild. Between 1992-1995, 17 bats were taken into captivity as a bulwark against extinction. There are now 71 bats in the breeding program currently.

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Many bat-pollinated plants have specialised features to ensure pollination exclusively by bats, such as flowers that only open at night, nectar production late in the day, or nectar composition favoured by bats over birds or insects.

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The Tent-making Bat (Uroderma bilobatum) builds its own shelters by chewing the veins of large leaves. Collapsing a frond in this way may take up to 80 bites!

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In the summer, the Brown Long-eared Bat (Plecotus auritus) can be found roosting in older buildings, barns, churches, and trees. During this time, these bats generally form small and quiet colonies of about 20 animals of both sexes.

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The Pallid Bat (Antrozous pallidus) has a mutation in its voltage-gated sodium ion channels of nerve cells which makes it immune to the painful venom of the Arizona bark scorpion (Centruroides sculpturatus). Scientists hope this bat may lead to new discoveries in pharmacology.

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Bats are well-known for their echolocation, but they also use their voices to attract mates and repel rivals. The Heart-nosed Bat (Cardioderma cor) sings to claim its territory.

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Bats do not lay eggs.

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April 17th is Bat Appreciation Day! Get hyped!

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Since bats have wings that are proportionally heavier than birds and are controlled by fingers, they can hover like hummingbirds!

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The length of the forearm is a key diagnostic in determining the species of bat.

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Bat guano been used by the United States as early as the War of 1812 for making gunpowder.

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Biologists can study bats in a number of ways. In addition to recording their echolocation calls, mist nets are also frequently used to sample bat populations. This Common Vampire Bat is very upset.

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Many birds reach extreme speeds while diving, but the Mexican Free-tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) is the fastest flying animal reaching speeds of nearly 100mph (160kph) in horizontal flight.

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The White-throated Round-eared Bat (Lophostoma silvicolum) roosts inside termite colonies.

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Bats can react against the mass of their wings for complex aerial maneuvers!

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Eastern Red Bat mating season is in the fall, but the female stores the seminal fluid until she ovulates in the spring. Female red bats are also one of the few bat species to have large litters, meaning that they have 4 nipples instead of the usual 2!

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Bats are sometimes called the farmers of the rainforest due to the important ecosystem roles they perform. They pollinate plants and spread seeds of numerous plants, including wild bananas and guavas. Thanks, bats!

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Bats make terrible pets.

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Madagascar famous for it's lemurs is also home to at least 36 endemic species of bats. The Madagascan flying fox being one of them. Both of the wonderful groups of animals are threatened by habit loss and becoming bushmeat.

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Flowers that attract bats are typically fragrant, open at night, and produce copious nectar. Some even have specially shaped petals to reflect bat echolocation. Over 300 species of fruit depend on bats for pollination.

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White-Nose Syndrome infographic (Updated April 2018)

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Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai), also known as the bumblebee bat is arguably the smallest extant mammal species. They are active for short periods around dusk and dawn; less than an hour in total is spent catching small insects and spiders.

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Having drab coloration is an asset for many bat species low on the food chain, including these Pale Spear-nosed Bats (Phyllostomus discolor). The bat on the right has a pigment mutation making it more light colored than normal.

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There are only three species of vampire bats. The White-winged Vampire Bat (Diaemus youngi) seems to prefer the blood of birds rather than mammals. The bats feed by hanging under perched birds and nip their toes with sharp teeth. They feed for 15 minutes then vanish into the night.

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Though they may appear leathery, the skin of bat wings is very soft and stretchy. The skin of some bat wings is thin enough that gases can diffuse through allowing bats to breathe through their wings!

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Like other wildlife, bats populations are vulnerable to pollution. In addition to chemical pollutants, sound and light pollution are detrimental to bats.

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Red Bats (Lasiurus borealis) begin mating in flight and finish on the ground.

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Male Little Free-tailed Bats (Chaerephon pumilus) have sweet hair that makes them easily recognizable in flight as they catch insects. This species is widespread in Africa.

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Red Bats (genus: Lasiurus) use their furry tail membrane as a blanket to keep warm!

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You may have seen bats wiggling their ears, but you may not have noticed that some bats also wiggle their noses, which directs their echolocation.

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Common Vampire Bats (Desmodus rotundus) will happily roost alongside other bat species. They tend to occupy the darkest and highest places in the roost.

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Similar to cats, flying foxes groom themselves meticulously.

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Livingstone’s Fruit Bat (Pteropus livingstonii) are active both day and night. They typically fly to a feeding site a few hours before dusk, taking advantage of hot, daytime thermals, and hang from the trees before beginning to feed after nightfall.

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Ultrasonic Acoustic Deterrents (UADs) are devices that emit a loud, high frequency noise that bats will avoid. It is hypothesized that placing UADs on turbines may allow wind energy facilities to operate normally while dramatically decreasing bat fatalities. More field tests are planned for 2017.

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The 2017 Ig Nobel Prize for Nutrition was awarded to a team of biologists who found evidence of the Hairy-Legged Vampire Bat (Diphylla ecaudata) feeding on humans. Typically they drink the blood of birds.

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Many bats have an ankle spur made of cartilage called a calcar. This helps support their uropatagium, a sort of third wing between their hind legs, which smaller bats can use to scoop up insects in flight.

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Bats rely greatly on maternal care until they can fly. It will take this Seba's Short-tailed Bat (Carollia perspicillata) pup 10-13 weeks after birth to reach that point. Mothers can distinguish between the distress calls of their own pups from other pups of the same age.

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October is Bat Awareness Month!

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Bats grim/spooky reputation is something unique to the western world. In China for example they are seen as a sign of wealth and good fortune, they even build bat houses like us westerners often build bird houses.

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Many bats play an important role in rainforest ecosystems by spreading seeds. Seeds that have passed through the digestive tract of the Madagascar Flying Fox (Pteropus rufus) incur a fitness advantage through increased germination success.

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Common Vampire Bats (Desmodus rotundus) consume less than two tablespoons of blood each night.

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Bats, along with whales, dolphins, and some primates, are the only mammals that demonstrate vocal learning, juvenile babbling, and regional dialects.

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In ancient Greek literature, an eidolon is a spirit-image of a living or dead person; a shade or phantom look-alike of the human form. It is also the genus name for the Straw-colored Fruit Bat (Eidolon helvum).

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Hoary Bats (Lasiurus cinereus) are a solitary species, which makes population estimates difficult. The population could decline by as much as 90% due to wind turbine collisions in the next 50 years if the initial population size is near 2.5 million. Research into mitigation strategies is ongoing.

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Bats are listed as unclean birds in Leviticus and consumption of them is forbidden. Also included in this passage are eagles and storks.

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Naturally fermenting fruits can range from 0.6% up to 4.5% ethanol in Central America. Bats can eat these without getting inebriated. Party on, bats!

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There is some evidence that bats confuse wind turbines with water sources.

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There are about a hundred species of free-tailed bats (Family: Molossidae). They can be found on every continent except Antarctica. They can often be identified by their large, bonnet-like ears and a tail which hangs beyond the uropatagium spread between their hindlimbs.

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The world's largest cactus species relies on bats, like this Lesser Long-nosed Bat (Leptonyderis yerbabuenae), for pollination and seed distribution.

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Like flying wolves, Spectral Bats (Vampyrum spectrum) live in family groups where both parents help care for the offspring. They hunt a variety of birds and small mammals. An analysis of carnivorous bat skulls has revealed convergent traits with other mammalian predators like weasels and bears.

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Vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) have heat-sensitive organs in their nose they use to determine where warm blood is closest to the surface. They use this super sense to decide where to bite their hosts.

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Frog-eating bats identify edible from poisonous frogs by listening to mating calls of the males.

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The Greater Naked Bat (Cheiromeles torquatus) can rotate its thumbs so it can climb up trees backwards!

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The Shasta Ground Sloth (Nothrotheriops shastensis) was one of the smaller extinct megafauna at 9 feet long. The most notable specimen of this species still had skin and tendons attached to the skeleton when it was found. It had been preserved in bat guano.

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Alopecia rarely occurs in non-human mammals, but has been documented in bats. In one study of Rickett's Big-Footed Myotis, 78.5% of the adult bats captured had bald spots.

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Mitochondria are commonly between 0.75 and 3 microns in diameter. The Long-haired Fruit Bat (Stenonycteris lanosus) has some giant mitochondria which measure 6.4 microns in diameter! It has smaller ones too.

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The Florida Bonneted Bat (Eumops floridanus) was listed as an endangered species in the United States in 2013. These bats do not migrate and roost in tree hollows, buildings, under Spanish-tile roosts, in dead palm fronds and bat houses. Instructions to build bat houses are in the comments.

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Winter Holiday Hiatus.

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Silver-haired bats are among the most common forest bats in America, closely associated with coniferous or mixed coniferous and deciduous forest types, especially in areas of Old Growth. Managing forests for diverse age structure and maintaining forested corridors are important to these bats.

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The Greater Sac-winged Bat (Saccopteryx bilineata) uses pouches to store secretions used in its courtship display. The sac is only found in males and they clean/refill these daily.

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Flying foxes often flip upside-down to relieve themselves.

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While you might think of birds when you hear the word migration, there are actually at least 88 species of bats which migrate. There is some evidence to suggest that the Great Fruit-eating Bats (Artibeus lituratus) may migrate between different elevations.

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Black Flying Fox (Pteropus alecto) pups cannot fly until they are two to three months old but that doesn't stop them from trying! They aren't fully independent until they are about six months old.

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Woolly False Vampire Bats (Chrotopterus auritus) live in small groups of up to 7 individuals. They may share their roost with other bat species. Those other bats should watch out!

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To introduce younger audiences to bats in an approachable way, we should flip videos of bats hanging upside down and put it to music.

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The flight membranes of bats are susceptible to damage from a number of sources, including impacts with natural and man-made objects, fighting between conspecifics, and attacks by predators or pathogens. As this rescued bat demonstrates, these membranes can heal remarkably well.

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After mating, the vaginas of female Greater Horseshoe Bats (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) are closed by a waxy plug secreted by the males. Pregnancy rates can be estimated by the number of plugs found under roosting sites.

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In the category of vertebrates, only vampire bats are capable of detecting infrared radiation (as well as boas, pythons and pit vipers)

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The large and small intestines of bats are much less differentiated and much shorter than in other mammal species. Relative to body length, the gut of fruit-eating bats is much longer than those of insect eaters.

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Many people think bats are creepy. Those people should watch this gif of two bat pups licking each other. Bats are important and very useful: they pollinate plants, spread seeds, and consume pests. Thanks, bats.

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The Pallid Bat (Antrozous pallidus) hunts large, crawling arthropods like centipedes and scorpions. They also seek nectar and cactus fruit. This gregarious species will sometimes inhabit bat houses in the western United States.

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Australian flying foxes like to spend all day in the sun and fan themselves to keep cool.

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The Ghost bat (Macroderma gigas) can catch and carry prey 80% of their own body weight so flying with their pup for the first 4 weeks is no problem for this spooky bat!

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You can make a pretty decent bat costume for Halloween using a hoodie, felt, and an umbrella.

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The Common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus) is very agile. It has to be to sneak up on large mammals and to dodge the occasional swatting hoof.

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Because of their thin and bony wings, bats experience less drag and can fly with more accuracy than most birds.

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The Common Slit-faced Bat (Nycteris thebaica) will sometimes roost in the burrows of aardvarks or porcupines.

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There are 18 bat species in Canada. They are all insectivores belonging to the Vespertilionidae family.

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Fact: my girlfriend/colleague and I made this handy guide to white-nose syndrome for concerned citizens like yourselves! Enjoy!

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Bats use the inertia of their wings, which are relatively heavy compared to those of birds, to flip themselves when landing upside down.

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Recent research shows that bat communication is often targeted at a particular individual and can lead to a predictable outcome.

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Can anyone help me identify this little guy? Spotted in Mexico

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Fruit bat diets in captivity often include things like banana, apples, pears, cantaloupe, watermelon, honeydew melon, grapes, and less popular items like broccoli and kale!

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Bats don't build nests so mother bats must bring their newborn pups on foraging bouts. Even with that extra weight, this long-nosed bat can hover at flowers!

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The Honduran White Bat (Ectophylla alba) has evolved to have a special band of dark pigmented tissue on top of their heads that protects them from harsh solar radiation. This band is colored by melanin, the same pigment that colors human skin and hair.

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One of the sailors aboard Captain James Cook's 1770 Australian expedition proclaimed that he had met a devil. As you may have guessed, it was just a flying fox.

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Nearly 25% of all mammal species are bats!

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Humans and bats share a common ancestor. In 1992, a boy was documented displaying several atavistic traits similar to bats such as webbed fingers and elongated, flexible ears.

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The bumblebee bat, also known as Kitti's hog-nosed bat, is the world's smallest bat and the smallest mammal in the world based on skull size. Weighing in at just around 2 grams, it's so small that you might actually confuse one for a bumblebee if it went buzzing by your ear.

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In 1988 the Lesser Long-nosed Bat (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae) was listed as an endangered species in the United States. At the time, there were thought to be fewer than 1,000 bats at 14 known roost sites. Today, there are an estimated 200,000 spread across 75 roosts. This one has a radio tracker.

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The genus name Eumops is derived from the Greek eu meaning good and the Malayan mops meaning bat. This is Eumops floridanus, the Florida Bonneted Bat, one of the most critically endangered mammals in North America.

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Short-tailed Fruit Bats (Carollia perspicillata) are important for forest regeneration with their foraging range of about a mile (1.5km) from their home roost. By some estimates, just one colony of 400 may disperse over 146 million seeds annually.

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The Mexican Free-tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) has been clocked traveling 60 miles per hour assisted by a tailwind. They also fly higher than any other bat, reaching altitudes of 10,000 feet. Pretty impressive for a creature that weighs less than three crayons!

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Bat guano can be differentiated from rodent feces fairly easily. Bat droppings can be crushed into a fine powder when pressed but mouse and rat droppings retain their rigid shape. Guano is high in nitrogen and makes excellent fertilizer.

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Virginia is one of the few US states with an official state bat. In 2005, they selected the Virginia big-eared bat, an endangered subspecies of the Townsend's big-eared bat (pictured)

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At least 21 bat species live within the urban boundaries of Rio de Janeiro.

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Several bat species have transitioned from catching insects, to catching insects off the water surface, to catching fish! These bats have large, clawed feet to trawl the water and keen echolocation to detect when a fish breaks the surface.

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The common bedbug, Cimex lectularius, feeds not only on humans but on other animals, especially bats. In fact, the species may have originally been a bat parasite that made the jump to early humans when they entered caves.

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Brazil has at least 184 known bat species.

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The black flying fox (Pteropus alecto) usually feeds on nectar, fruit and blossom of trees such as eucalypts, but will take from agriculture when other foods are scarce and can cost the Australian fruit industry loses approx AUS$20 million from damage during such times. This one is eating a banana.

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Look at the male flying fox on the bottom left. He is rubbing his head and neck all over those branches to claim them as his own. Your pet cat may have similarly scent marked you.

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Relative to body size, the Spotted Bat (Euderma maculatum) has the largest ears of any bat.

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About two-thirds of the diet of Rickett's Big-Footed Bat (Myotis ricketti) is fish.

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The evolutionary history of bats is still in the dark - some think they, or at least some of them (big fruit bat types), may even share a common ancestor with primates due to the idea of flight developing from tree gliding.

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The Chocolate Wattled Bat is found from rainforests to treeless plains and inhabits a wide variety of other environments, roosting in tree hollows, caves, and even buildings in Australia and Tasmania.

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Although bats are one of the most diverse groups of mammals today, they are one of the least common groups in the fossil record. Bats have small, light skeletons that do not preserve well and we have little information on the early evolution of this group.

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Bats (order: Chiroptera) are the second most diverse group of mammals surpassed only by rodents (which they are not closely related to).

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A few bat species can modify large leafs to make better roosts, called tents. Thomas's Fruit-eating Bat (Dermanura watsoni) has been documented in tents made from the leaves of at least twenty-five plant species, though they seem to prefer some plant species more than others and switch roosts often.

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Unlike birds which descended from bipedal dinosaurs, bats are thought to have evolved from a quadrupedal mammal. This proto-bat likely lived in the trees.

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The Pied Bat (Niumbaha superba) was reclassified as the sole member of its genus in 2013. This marked only the fifth time this species has ever been captured and the first time in over seventy years.

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Hairy-legged vampire bats (Diphylla ecaudata) are starting to feed from humans as a result of deforestation making birds scarce. This was originally thought to have been impossible.

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The world's largest bat cave is in the United States. The property is owned by Bat Conservation International and has been featured in several nature documentaries.

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Before the introduction of domestic livestock to Latin America, Vampire Bats (Desmodus rotundus) preyed on other large mammals like this tapir. They have also been documented feeding from sea lions, deer, and even penguins (not mammals).

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The Common Vampire Bat and Lesser Short-tailed Bat are the only known existing walking bats. They both feed on the ground, which is rare for bats. Unfortunately, scientists are unsure whether Wellington’s Lesser Short-tailed Bat, New Zealand’s only endemic land mammal, has been extirpated or not.

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There are over 1300 species of bats! Found on every continent but Antarctica, bats have adapted to a wide variety of ecological niches.

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The Eastern Blossom Bat (Syconycteris australis) has a wide distribution and its extinction risk is considered to be low. This one is a baby.

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What is the best way to get nectar from a flower? Bats of the Glossophaginae subfamily use their tongue like a spoon while bats in the Lonchophyllinae subfamily use their tongues like a straw. Both groups are in the Phyllostomidae family, the New World Leaf-nosed Bats.

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Mother flying foxes spend a great deal of time grooming their pups; orphaned flying foxes get baths from rescuers!

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