Fast Bat Facts

• A single bat can eat 1200 insects in one hour!
 

 

 

• The wingspan of the Indiana Bat is from 9 to 11 inches.

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• The Indiana bat weighs as much as 3 pennies!
 

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• The Little Brown Bat population has dropped from an estimated 385,000 bats before WNS struck to 30,000 in 2011, a decline of over 90%!

 

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• Female bats gather together with their pups in maternity colonies.
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• Male bats gather together in bachelor boxes, separate from females and pups.

 

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• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has estimated 6.7 million bats have died from WNS.
 

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• Both bats and dolphins use echolocation -- the use of sound waves that bounce off objects and return to the ears – to navigate.