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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