SO: DD-2 (First Timers)

Bat’s wings are made of flexible skin which has strong proteins in them called collagen.

Bats produce pulses that top out at 200 per minute!

When beginning to search for prey, most bats send out 2000 blasts per second of their sound which is too low for us to hear.

Flying fox bats can grow to have almost a 10-foot wing span!

In complete darkness, using only sound, fishing bats can detect a two-millimeter ripple on water caused by the Amazonian shark

Some bats have been known to fly through the spinning blades of a fan!

Outside of San Antonio, Texas there is a huge bat cave called Bracken Cave.

Bracken Cave can be home to as many as two hundred million bats! They fly to the cave in March each year to make it home.

When bats come out of Bracken cave, they are come out at a somewhat steady rate.

One mistake with a bat’s sonar could mean a high speed crash with a cave wall, stalactite or another bat.

There can be as many as a thousand bat “pups” per square foot clinging to the roof of the cave.

Bats care for their “pups” upside down, high in a cave in the dark!

A single bat usually catches just one insect an hour! Stealth hunting takes a while. Patience is the name of the game.

A bat can fly better than most birds because its wings are controlled by his leg tendons.

Bats have very elongated fingers that can change the shape of their wings very quickly making high speed turns easy for them.

A nursing mother bat can catch over 4500 insects in a night! Then mom comes back to nurse her young like a momma dog does her puppies

Most of the 20 million bats in Bracken cave don’t get to their personalized sleeping spot on the cave ceiling without collisions and no one hogging another’s place. There are a lot of crashes and a lot of falling into the bat guano on the floor of the cave! But it’s no problem. The bats do a 34g-power shake like the hummingbird does and they’re up and zooming again!

Some bats can be remarkably ugly but their ugly face is great equipment for hi-tech flying.

The Flying Foxes wrap themselves with their wings at night. A bat-blankie!

Just as 1800’s trappers in the American West would follow a certain course to see if their traps caught anything, the flying fox bats fly to many places and stop to see if there is food in special spots along the route. They can go 20 miles to get their desired yummies… just like some folks do! : )

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