![]() Red Bat T-Shirts Red Bats fly 40 miles per hour, emit high frequency sounds, listen to the echoes that bounce off their flying insect prey and catch them with their wings. They migrate between the Americas with the seasons. |
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The Greater
Horseshoe Bat roosts in houses and caves of
Europe, hunts insects on the fly and even drinks
and picks insects off the ground while flying. |
![]() Big-eared
Desert Bat
Big-eared Bats live in the West and the Great
Plains from Mexico to South Dakota. They roost
in caves and mines and catch flying insects. |
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There really are Vampire Bats and they really do feed on blood! Three Vampire Bat species inhabit Central and South America from Mexico to Brazil, Argentina and Chile: the Common Vampire Bat, the Hairy-Legged Vampire Bat, and the White-Winged Vampire Bat. |
![]() The large, noisy Indian Flying Fox, or Fox Bat, lives in coastal swamps in India, Bangladesh, China, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka and neighboring Islands. Fox Bats feed on fruit and roost in spooky looking camps where thousands hang upside down in large trees. |
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Eastern Long eared Bats
inhabit most of the eastern U.S. as far south as
from Arkansas to Georgia and in the north from
Newfoundland to eastern British Columbia. Long
eared Bats live in home-made bat houses. |
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Actually, Vampire Bats usually feed on livestock. They approach their host from the ground, biting their legs and lapping up blood from the wound. Although one Amazon explorer reported that a vampire bat fed from a wound it incised on his nose while he slept! |
The Little Brown Bat, the species most often attracted to bat boxes, inhabits most of wooded Canada and northern U.S. Nests in tree cavities and often in sheds and attics. Forage in open spaces for flies, moths, mosquitoes, and aquatic insects near or over water. |
![]() There really are Vampire Bats and they really do feed on blood! Three Vampire Bat species inhabit Central and South America from Mexico to Brazil, Argentina and Chile: the Common Vampire Bat, the Hairy-Legged Vampire Bat, and the White-Winged Vampire Bat. |
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