Fun Bat Facts to Know and Tell

1. There are bats in Latin America, called disk winged bats, which have little adhesive disks on each wing, which can allow it to walk straight up a window pane!

2. The african heart nosed bat can hear the foot steps of a bettle, which is walking on sand, six feet away!

3. In Indoneasia, there are giant fruit bats that fave up to six foot wing spans.

4. The bumble bee bat of Thailand is the smallest mammal on Earth, weighing in at less then a penny!

5. Nector feeding bats in the American southwest are the primary pollinators of the famous organ pipe and saguaro of Arizona.

6. The oldest bat fossil ever found was 60 million years old!

7. Bats can fly 2 miles high, and catch tail winds, riding them at speeds of up to 60 miles an hour!

8. The pallid bat of western North America is immune to the stings of scorpions and even the seven-inch centipedes upon which it feeds.

9. Fishing bats have echolocation so sophisticated that they can detect a minnow's fin as fine as a human hair, protruding only two millimeters above a pond's surface.