1.Bats can find their food in total darkness. They locate insects by emitting inaudible high-pitched sounds, 10-20 beeps per second and listening to echoes
2.Many bats eat insects. Bats can eat up to 1,200 mosquitoes in an hour and often consume their body weight in insects every night, helping keep bug populations in check.
Other bats eat fruit or nectar and can play an important role as pollinators. There are only three species of "vampire bats"—bats that live off the blood of animals. None of those species lives in the United States.
3.Bats are the only mammals capable of true, sustained flight, as opposed to merely gliding in the air like flying squirrels, colugos and some possums do. Their wings are in fact their forelimbs, with the part they flap being the hand, formed of extremely elongated fingers connected by a thin membrane called a ‘patagium’. This membrane also extends down to the much shorter legs and continues between them, too.
4.Bats can eat up to 1,200 mosquitoes in an hour and often consume their body weight in insects every night, helping keep bug populations in check. Other bats eat fruit or nectar and can play an important role as pollinators. There are only three species of "vampire bats"—bats that live off the blood of animals.
5.Most bats have only one pup a year, making them extremely vulnerable to extinction. Bat mothers can find their babies among thousands or millions of other bats by their unique voice.
6.The world’s smallest bat is the bumble bee bat of Thailand, which is smaller than a thumbnail and weighs less than a penny.
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