Latest Sightings:
• British bats only eat insects - they do not eat fruit of suck blood • Bats are not birds but mammals, like humans. • Bats catch flying insects at night, seeing with their ears, using echo location • Bats can live for over 30 years • Bats have hung around for 50 million years • Bats spend their days sleeping hanging upside down in roosts • 12 of the 17 species of bat living in Britain can be found at Brown's Folly, close to Bath • If we had ears as big as the long-eared bat, they would reach to our waist • Bats are protected by law. It is illegal to handle any bat or disturb their roost • Bats have few enemies, but can be eaten by snakes, birds of prey or owls • Cats catch bats just like they do birds and are their biggest predator • The tiny common pipistrelle bat can eat 3,000 insects in a single night • Bats fly with their hands - they have extra long fingers with flaps of skin between them to make a wing
Bats for Bath

 

Bats are our most elusive and mysterious
animals, but if you live in or around Bath you
might not be very far away from them.
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