Interesting Facts about Bats
- Many plant species depend on bat for their seeds distribution.
- In mammals only bats can fly.
- Kitty’s hog-nosed bat is the smallest bat only 29 to 34 mm in length.
- Pteropus is a largest species of bat with weight of 1.6 to 1.7kg.
- In 2003, An 52 million Years old bat has found in Wyoming, United States.
- The lifespan of brow bat is 6 to 7 years and can live up to 10 years.
- One brown bat can catch 1,200 mosquito-size insects in only one hour.
- At least in Ontario, brown bat mating occurs in two phases, active and passive. In the active phase, both partners are awake and alert. In the passive state, active males try to mate with torpid bats regardless of their sex.
- Bats see in dark using echolocation skill.
- When they arise in the spring, the females go to nursery colonies which may often be the same place where they were born.
- These colonies sometimes reach numbers of bats as great as 1,000 per cave/forest.
- Bat's babies open eyes on their second day. At three weeks, they learn to fly. By four weeks, they are adult sized.
- Females may be sexually mature in the fall after their birth, but males may take a year longer.
- The finger bones of bats are very flexible than other mammals.
- Bats represent about 20% of all classified mammal species worldwide, with about 1,240 total bat species.
- The bat is sometimes used as a heraldic symbol. The coats of arms of certain cities in eastern Spain, such as Valencia, Palma de Mallorca and Fraga, have the bat over the shield.
- Certain Spanish football clubs including Valencia CF and Levant UD use bats in their badges.
- Three U.S. states have an official state bat. Texas and Oklahoma are represented by the Mexican free-tailed bat; Virginia is represented by the Virginia big-eared bat.
- Some people say that bats can't see but they can see very well.
