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can fly. Like all mammals, they are “warm-blooded”, have bodies covered with fur, and nurse their young with milk. Bats have one baby or pup a year, they are very small and defenseless when they are born. They are usually born in large colonies with thousands of baby’s squeezed together, hanging from the ceiling of a cave or in hollow trees. This keeps them warm and safe.
A mother must use smell and recognize the cry in order to locate their own pup in the crowd. It is several months before a baby is able to fly and hunt alone. Until then it relies on mother’s milk for food.
There are two main groups of bats, the large “flying foxes” that eat fruit, and the smaller insecteating bats.
Nearly all bats are helpful animals, responsible for controlling pest insect populations, pollinating flowers, and dispersing seeds. Seventy percent of the bat species are insect eating bats or insectivores. Many of these bats can eat 600 — 1200 bugs an hour.
Besides mosquitoes, bats also eat crop-destroying pests like moths, locusts, grasshoppers, etc. Bats living near your home could keep you free of insect bites and other troubles caused by flying insects. This is why bat houses are becoming popular.
Bats have excellent night vision. Fruit Bats use their eyesight and sense of smell to find fruits and flowers. Bats that hunt insects, fish, or frogs can also “see” with sound. This is called echolocation. Though a bats eye site is pretty good, many have this added skill.
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