In the spirit of the spooky season, I give you: bats! Traditionally associated with vampires and Halloween, sucking blood and getting tangled in human hair, I know I don't have to convince you Young Naturalists that bats are extremely awesome and not at all scary once you know a little bit about them.The Hinterland Who's Who website has a great fact sheet about bats, plus cool video clips, and even instructions on how to build a bat house. Check it out!
A couple of cool things I learned:
- Canada has 19 recorded species of bat, 17 of which are regular residents
- Bats can live to be over 30 years old! Ontario has the record for the oldest in Canada: a 35 year old little brown bat.
- Canadian bats typically eat somewhere between 50% and 100% of their body weight in insects every night.
Enjoy! And have a spooky and safe Halloween.
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