1. The largest known bat colony in the world is the Bracken Bat Cave in Texas, it has more than 30 million bats which eats more than 250 tons of insects every single night.

When the bats leave the cave they form a large group which looks like a huge storm on radar.

2. In order to prolong copulation female Short-Nosed Fruit Bats actually perform MouthAction (MouthAction) on the males.

3. Some bats can fly up to 400 km in one single night, reach speeds of up to 100 km/h and fly as high as 3,000 meters.

4. A single bat can eat up to 600 insects in one hour.

5. The giant Golden-Crowned Flying Fox is the largest bat in the world with a wingspan of about six feet.

6. There are more than 1,200 species of bats in the world and only 3 species are Vampire bats.

7. Bats play a very major role in spreading millions of seeds every year from the ripe fruit that they eat, infact some seeds will not sprout unless they have passed through the digestive tracts of a bat.

It is estimated that up to 95% of reforestation in the tropical rainforest is a result of seed dispersal from bats.

8. Contrary to popular belief, Vampire bats do not actually "suck" blood. What they do is that they "lap" the blood with their tongues very similar to the way dogs drink water.

Another fact is that its one ugly looking,creepy creature.

9. A Vampire bat will rarely bite a human being and when it does it usually comes back the following night to feed from the same person. Vampire bats can tell people apart from the way they breath.

10. Bats are broadly classified into two groups: Megabats (Megachiroptera) which are mainly fruit-eating bats and Microbats (Microchiroptera) which are smaller and generally eats insects.

11. Bats are the only mammals in the world that can fly.

12. Bats can be found in every country on every continent in the world except Antarctica. Bats even live in the Arctic North Pole.

13. Some bats can live up to 40 years before they die. The Little Brown Bat is a very good example.

14. About 20% of all mammals in the world are bats.

15. About 70% of all bats eat insects, the remaining 30% eat fruits.

16. Vampire bats can move very well on the ground, infact they are the only bat species that can move well on the ground.

17. Most bats open their mouths when they call out their echo location signals, but some can emit this signal through their nose.

18. In Asia, especially China and Japan, bats are symbols of happiness and good fortune while in North America and Europe they are often associated with witchcraft and black magic.

19. Contrary to popular belief bats are not actually blind and they can see quite well, some species can even detect ultra-violet light.

20. The Tube-Lipped Nectar Bat (Anoura fistulata) boasts of the longest tongue, relative to body lenght, of any mammal in the world. The tongue is so long (about one and a half times it's body lenght) that the bat retracts it into it's rib cage when it's not in use.

21. Some female bats can control when they give birth by storing the male's sperms inside their body, some can even slow the development of the embryo inside them.

22. The smallest bat in the world is the Bumblebee Bat (Kitti's Hog-Nosed Bat) it is about the size of the bumblebee and can be found in Thailand. It is currently a critically endangered specie.

23. Bats that feed on frogs can accurately tell the difference between the poisonous and the edible frogs by listening to the call of the male frogs.

24. All the female bats in most bat colonies give birth to their babies at the same time.

25. Most female bats will give bat to only a single baby once in a year making them the slowest reproducing mammals in the world for their size. This also makes them vulnerable to extinction.

26. The Pallid Bat of North America feeds on scorpions and centipedes and is totally immune to their stings.

http://globalthots..com/2014/07/interesting-facts-about-bats.html?m=1

Am a MAN, if i get myself a pet BAT, does that turm me into BATMAN?.



nice post @op

But please remember ebola virus!

Nice one Krak.. Keep on with ur research. Its been a long while I saw a bat oo..

chymystique: Nice one Krak.. Keep on with ur research. Its been a long while I saw a bat oo..

Thanks o. There are still bats all around us, wherever you are just come out at night and just gaze into the night sky, I am sure you will see some bats flying past.

Weird, creepy creatures!

Thanks for sharing OP.

Don't know why y'all saying. its creepy, it's not to me, I adore almost all birds or so-like, from owls to parrots, to eagles to bats, I love em, in fact I have a parrot and an owl at home

This reminds me of OAU ife bats..damn dos bats can love to shit on ur car,and even on you,if you are not careful.and as I heard.OAU ife has the largest concentration of bats in africa*i stand to be corrected thou*..
also those security men love bat soup as well. :-D