Living Areas
These bats live on every continent, but are particularly intense in the Antarctic continent. They generally live in tree caves, caves and dead branches of ferns. Some species can live in tunnels, bridges, roofs and mines.
General characteristics of small bats
Small bats The length of the small bats varies between about 4 and 20 centimeters and their weight ranges between about 3-150 grams. Wing lengths are about 25 centimeters long.
Bats have tails and wings and use them to catch their prey. Their bodies are usually hairless, only some species have long hairs. The fingers of the small bats are both flexible and long. While sleeping, they usually sleep upside down and live active at night.
The ears of the small bats are of different structure according to their types and are pointed sharply from the ear toes. They see it with their ears, not their eyes. Small bats; they find their way through a unique system. They emit sounds from their throats and emit this sound through the mouths and noses in the form of sound waves, and this sound is called echolocation. They use these sound waves to recognize the environment. In other words, they determine the time between the moment when the sound of the bat comes out and the return between the echo. The difference in duration and intensity of the resonant sound can determine both the location and magnitude of the object.
Small bats sleep a mini-hibernation in the winters. In other words, they cannot find any food in the winter, so they reduce the temperature of their bodies and return to resting mode, and they reactivate with spring.
How to Feed Small Bats?
These bat species feed on grass soil moths, insects, flying termites, disease-bearing mosquitoes and insects. They can eat about half the weight of nutrients per day or 40 bugs per hour. Some large bats can also eat frogs, birds, lizards and small fish.
Small bats; they can catch their prey while flying in the air and eat. Small bats, who could stay tirelessly for many hours, developed their own techniques to hunt non-flying beetles.
Small Bats Reproduction
Females of the female small bats are pairs and some species are fattening. They have about 110 days of gestation after mating and they have one or two offspring at a birth. They usually mate in autumn and fall into the body during the winter sleep and fertilize during the spring. Pregnant bats are perforated in a region apart from men until birth. Puppies are born as June, July. The female carries the bat under its wings until it grows.
Sub Bins of Small Bats
Nal nose, leaf-nosed, free-tailed, cap-nosed, flat-nosed, fish-eating bats, a total of six.
