Discover strange facts about bats: vampire bats, fruit bats, flying foxes, echolocating microbats, and the only mammals on Earth capable of true powered flight.
Explore the remarkable world of bats, the only mammals capable of true powered flight. Expert-written guide covering 1,400+ species, echolocation science, vampire bats, pollination roles, white-nose syndrome, and bat conservation worldwide.
Bats navigate and hunt using 200 calls per second and ear-processing faster than any other mammal. Expert guide to how echolocation actually works.
Bats see with sound - mapping 3D space using ultrasonic echoes. Expert guide to how echolocation works, why bats are not blind, and what they can detect.
Everything about the vampire bat: the only mammals that live on blood, heat-sensing pit organs, draculin anticoagulant, cooperative food-sharing, and the strange biology of Desmodus rotundus.
Everything about the fruit bat: size, habitat, diet, colony life, reproduction, conservation, and the strange facts that make the large flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus) one of the world's most ecologically important mammals.
Everything about the Mexican free-tailed bat: size, habitat, flight speed, diet, echolocation, migration, mega-colonies, and the strange facts that make Tadarida brasiliensis the fastest bat in level flight.
Everything about the little brown bat: size, habitat, diet, echolocation, hibernation, reproduction, white-nose syndrome, and the strange facts that make Myotis lucifugus one of North America's most remarkable mammals.
