bats

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related: wildlife editing: http://planeta.com/bats

There are about 1,100 **bat species** worldwide, which represent about twenty percent of all classified mammal species.

Bat week

Headlines
[] [|Mauritius to kill 18,000 threatened native bats in ‘disgraceful’ cull - Mongabay] [|Bat removal in Charters Towers in north Queensland goes off with a bang]

Flickr
[|BatsLIVE broadcast]

Twitter
[|@BatConRescueQld] [|@MareeTreadwellK] [|@OccasionalBat] [|@NZBatman]

Moment https://twitter.com/i/moments/923399206588497920

Recommended Listening
[|Give a bat a bad name] - Bats exist in an extraordinary reality where nothing is quite as we humans know it: whether it's flying, hanging upside down all day, using echo-location to hunt, or roosting deep in a cave... bats are different.

[|Flying fox relocation] - In May 2012, the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney commenced a project to relocate its colony of flying foxes.

Wiki
halloween

Wikipedia
[|Bat]

Elsewhere
[|Bat Conservation International (US)] [|14th Australasian Bat Society Conference] [|Tolga Bat Hospital] [|Bats In Folklore and Mythology] [|Australasian Bat Society website, including an article in its Newsletter Archive by Lindy Lumsden on the Christmas Island Pipistrelle] [|Naracoorte Caves National Park, SA] [|ABC's Scribbly Gum on Grey-headed flying foxes] [|Bat Rescue Inc. Gold Coast] [|Vivien Jones] http://www.batcon.org http://www.austincityguide.com/content/congress-bridge-bats-austin.asp http://pcma.com.ar http://www.fws.gov/midwest/endangered/mammals/inba/calendar http://www.batslive.pwnet.org

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat

2011
http://www.yearofthebat.org http://www.facebook.com/yearofthebat

Quotes
Where I live, in Austin, Texas, 1.5 million bats live in crevices beneath a single downtown bridge. When they began moving in, public health officials warned that they were diseased and dangerous--potential attackers of humans. Yet, through Bat Conservation International, we educated people to simply not handle them, and 30 years later, not a single person has been attacked or contracted a disease. Fear has been replaced by love as these bats catch 15 metric tons of insects nightly and attract 12 million tourist dollars each summer. - Merlin Tuttle, [|Year of the Bat]

Did you know ...
What animal pollinates the agave plant? The agave plant blooms at night - when the long nosed bats are out!

Translating: Bat
Spanish: Murciélago

fyi
A bat’s heart rate is 300-400 beats per minute. During hibernation it can drop to 10 bpm

Many bats, and almost all in the United States, thrive on an insect diet. A single bat can eat up to 1,200 mosquito-sized insects every hour, and each bat usually eats 6,000 to 8,000 insects each night.Their appetite for mosquitoes certainly makes a backyard more comfortable. https://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/control-insects-bat-habitat

Australia
http://ausbats.org.au - [|@MareeTreadwellK]

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