Bats can eat up to 1,200 mosquitoes in an hour and will also consume their body weight in insects every night,
helping keep bug populations in check.Most bats feed on insects, while others eat fruit, fish or even blood! and can play an important role as pollinators. Bats do see in the dark using a special skill called ECHOLOCATION.........
Bats find their food in darkness, and do locate insert by emitting inaudible high-pitched sounds,
Bats like Townsend bat have unusually robust immune systems. Bats are the only mammals that can fly.
Bats are divided into two main types.
THE MEGABATS AND MICRO BATS
MEGABATS [ Bats in the megachiroptera suborder these include flying foxes and Old wold fruit bats]
There are only three species of
"vampire bats"—bats that live off the blood of animals.
Common vampire bat----(Desmodus rotundus)
The hairy- legged vampire bat-----(Diphylla ecaudata)
And the white-winged vampire------(Diaemus youngi)
While others can glide, bats are the only mammals capable of continued flight.
Bloody vampire bats, my nightmares !
It's good that they eat mosquitoes. What would happen if mosquitoes disappeared though?
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