Where do bats live?
Not all bats spend their days roosting in caves. Some roost in trees, abandoned mines, buildings, bridges….the list goes on and on. Actually, the variety of bat roosts reflects the amazing diversity of bat species. Bats are highly opportunistic and have adapted to their environments in creative ways in order to take advantage of the many shelters available to them. Southern yellow bats (Lasiurus ega) roost in the hanging dead fronds of palm trees. Other bats, such as Honduran white bats (Ectophylla alba), chew the midribs of heliconia leaves in order to collapse them into waterproof tents far above the grasp of their predators. Evening bats (Nycticeius humeralis) raise their young under the bark of trees. Some bats even take shelter in the abandoned homes of other animals. For example, the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) occasionally lives inside woodpecker holes in giant cacti. In southeast Asia, tiny club-footed bats (Tylonycteris sp.) roost inside the hollow joints of bamboo stem
Bats spend most of the day sleeping, hidden away in some suitably dark and shadowy corner. They have successfully exploited a variety of shelters, or ‘roost-sites’, including caves, rock and tree crevices, man-made bat-boxes and probably even your attic! They are social animals, often roosting together in large colonies. One now-vanished colony of Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana), from the Carlsbad Caverns of New Mexico, was estimated to contain 9 million bats9.
A. Different bat species live all around the world. Brown bats, Mexican free-tailed bats and evening bats are commonly found nesting in people’s homes or offices. These types of bats love living in attics. For bats that haven’t found their way into the house, a cave, tree, mine, or underside of a bridge can serve as a good bat home. Q-2. WHY ARE BATS IN MY ATTIC?(Back to FAQ list ) A. Attics offer female bats a warm, dry, safe place to feed and raise their young. Bats are small with very high metabolisms—they seek heat—so bats in warm attics are very common. Bat pups are very dependent on their mothers. They drink milk from their mothers, like other mammals, and if a baby loses its grip on its roosting place, it may fall and die. Attics are sometimes the safest environments for bat colonies to live. Q-3. WHEN ARE BATS MOST ACTIVE? A. Bats are not like mice, which reproduce all the time and don’t live for very long. Bats only have one baby a year, and in rare cases, a bat will have twin
This post will answer that question, and also tell you a few interesting things about bats. Where do bats live? Bats live in every continent in the world, except Antarctica. They prefer to live in climates that are warm. Most bats live in forests. They like to hang from trees in the forest. Some species of bats like living in dark places, such as caves and attics. Interesting things about bats • Bats are nocturnal animals. They sleep through the day and look for food at night. • Most species of bat (about 70%) are insectivores, which means they feed mainly on insects. One bat species, the Greater Noctule bat, is believed to catch and eat small birds while flying! • While bats are sometimes called ‘flying rodents’, ‘flying rats’ or even insects, they are actually mammals. • Bats have an excellent sense of smell. • In the wild, bats can live for over 20 years. • Some bats have the ability to hibernate. When winter hits, the bats hibernate for about six months. Other bats migrate to warme
