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Bat Babies
Most females have only one baby, called a pup, per year, although twins or quadruplets occur in a few species. Some tropical bats can have two pregnancies a year.
Mothers nurse their pup for two to six months, then teach it to fly and find food.
Microbats
Smaller in size
Use echolocation
Small eyes
Large ears
Unusual facial features
Microbats
Like humans, microbats are warm-blooded animals. They are covered with fur and they nourish their young with milk produced by the mothers.
Bats share the same senses as humans, but they have the added benefit of flight and an exceptional system of navigation and prey detection called
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Megabats
echolocation
Just like bees and butterflies, tropical bats can transfer pollen as they fly from plant to plant. The seeds of the fruit are dropped by the bats as they are flying. This reseeds large areas of land.
Most bats fly at night. Many eat half their weight in insects in one night! A little brown bat can eat 600 insects like mosquitoes in an hour. A colony can eat 6,000 tons of insects in one year.
Fruit bats are social animals, and many hundred may gather in trees, during the day to rest and groom.
They leave their trees when the sun sets to search for food, using their excellent sight and sharp sense of smell.
They often feed in groups and fly long distances in search of food.Many megabats are found in tropical areas where there is lots of fruit to eat.
Roosting Tree
There are two main types of bats
As blind as a bat?
Megabats
Large in size
Use sight instead of echolocation
Small ears compared to microbats
Commonly called fruit bats due to their diet
Megabats
and Microbats
Contrary to popular belief, bats are not blind. Bats use echolocation to help them find food. Microbats make a high-frequency noise from their mouth or nose as they fly; these noises strike objects and bounce back as echoes. The bat can then tell if the object is a tasty insect or a brick wall.
This navigational system allows them to see pictures of sound much the same as our vision allows us to see. It also explains their large and unusual ear and nose shapes.