LITTLE BROWN BATSFLYING NIGHTMARES
Power Point by Rafferty
TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Introduction• What Bats Look Like• How Long They Live• Where Bats Live• What weather they live in • Bat Food• Prey and predators • Behavior • Reproduction• Physiological adaptations• Behavioral adaptations• Fun facts
• The scientific name for a bat is chiropteran
They are in the mammal family• They are the only mammal that has sustained flight
There are 1,100 bat species• There are two types of bats: Mega bats and micro
bats
• Brown bats are micro bats
INTRODUCTION
• Their body and hair color are brown• They have big ears they can spread their wings 22/27cm
they weigh 0.5 oz• they pick up sounds from far away but can not see in color • They have thumbs that help them climb and also to keep
them clean• they have sharp teeth to eat their prey
WHAT LITTLE BROWN BATS LOOK LIKE
• They have four very long fingers that are in their wings• Their tail helps it catch its food because its tail is like a
net• There are 782 species of micro bats• Their feet look like hands
MORE OF WHAT BATS LOOK LIKE
• They are not endangered
• They normally live 6 or 7 years
• But can live up to 15 years
HOW LONG THEY LIVE
• Little Brown Bats live mostly in North America – Canada, US, Mexico
• They live in old buildings, hollow trees, in wood piles, caves or under rocks
• They also like to sleep under metal roofs and in your attic
WHERE THEY LIVE
• Bats like cool weather • They like to come out when it turns 50°F • They stay in their caves during the day so they are not to hot
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WEATHER THEY LIVE IN
• They get their food from echolocation • Echolocation is how they use sound to find their food • They make a screeching sound that bounces off their
food
HOW BATS CATCH FOOD
• Snakes and rats and even big birds eat bats
• Bats eat mice, insects, small birds, and frogs
• BATS love to eat moths, the most
PREY AND PREDATOR WHAT THEY EAT AND WHAT EATS
THEM
• They are nocturnal (come out at night)• They leave their caves at dusk• If the moms leave their babies before they learn to fly
they will fall and die
BEHAVIOR HOW THEY ACT
• The male and the female do not stick together after mating
• The female takes care of babies • They breed only once per year and only one baby per
female
REPRODUCTION BABIES
• They have thumbs that help them climb and clean themselves
• They have wings that allow them to fly away from their predators
• They have big ears to hear from far away
PHYSICAL ADAPTATIONHOW IT ADAPTS TO THE SURROUNDINGS
• Bats sleep for 20 hours a day so they can fly all night• Bats are warm blooded it keeps them warm
They don’t like cold weather so they fly south or hibernate during the winter
BEHAVIORAL ADAPTATIONS
PY THAT HELPS BATS ADAPT
• A single brown bat can catch around 1,200 mosquitoes in one hour
• There are 3 species of vampire bats which feed only on blood
• Vampire bats can carry rabies, making their bites potentially dangerous
FUN FACTS
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