The Bat

Bats are found worldwide and there are hundreds of different species of bats that live in caves and forests, especially in the southern hemisphere. The bumblebee bat found in the jungles of Thailand is the smallest mammal in the world and weighs less than a penny!
Bats hunt at night using their exceptional choosing their prey, usually insects, frogs and small rodents view. The size of the bat varies with the species, but some bats can have a wingspan of 2 meters, as the Indonesian giant flying fox! Smaller species of bats can be as little as only 2 cm.
Niah Caves in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the tropical island of Borneo, is particularly famous for sightings of thousands of bats. Oddly enough the huge amounts of bat manure (known as guano), is one of the things that attracts so many people to the bats!
Some species of bats flying at extreme heights are known, sometimes up to 2 miles above the earth! Bats senses are tuned so fine that it is thought that some bats can hear steps 6 miles away.
Bats have a sixth sense called echolocation light. This means that the bat creates a series of supersonic sounds, then used the bat to locate their prey by sounds that are reflected back to them.
Unlike most species of animals, bats are in any environment worldwide excluding the polar regions. Despite the myths you may have heard, only three bat species feed on the blood of animals and all of them live in the deep jungles of South America, not Transylvania.

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