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Chip's Book of Knowledge Echolocation Bat Quiz Folklore Vampire bats Fascinating facts Bat Pictures Bats of the Amazon Rainforest	There are almost 1000 species of bats. They live in every region except the poles.   Bats can chase insects through a thick forest in the darkest of night without hitting one branch.   The Kittis hog-nosed bat (bumblebee bat) only weighs 2 grams.   Between May and July female brown bats gather in colonies of 100 or more. Each female gives birth to a single pup. The newborns are enormous usually weighing 25 to 30 percent their mothers weight.   In every bat species only the female takes care of the young.   Bats reach full size when they are only 3 weeks old.   Bats may live 10 years or longer.   Bat guano (droppings) is valuable fertilizer.   Flying foxes, the largest bat has a wingspan of 5 feet.   Bats will not purposely fly into a woman's hair.   Getting rabies is not a problem with bats because it is more likely you will get rabies from a dog.   Bats are important pollinators of plants, even bananas. In New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns there is a deposit of bat guano 100 feet deep.     Flying bats have been clocked at 60 mph.   The most common bat in North America, the little brown bat, can consume 600 mosquitoes in an hour.   Vampire bats require 2 tablespoons of blood per day to survive.   Bats are considered pests and nuisances in some countries.   In the U.S almost 40 percent of native bat species are protected under the Federal Endangered Species Act.
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