1. Brown bats produce a distinctive "honking" noise to avoid mid-air collisions with other bats and creatures.
2. Bats have an extremely variable heartbeat. During flight a bats heat can contract at over 1000 beats per minute (BPM), whereas during hibernation, their heartbeat can go down to just four BPM.
3. Not all bats will hibernate, some such as the spotted bat will simply migrate to warmer climates in search of food.
4. The same way that humans have valves in the blood stream to prevent pooling in our legs and feet, bats have valves to prevent pooling in their head, thus allowing them to hang upside down.
5. Because bat droppings (guano) are extremely high in potassium nitrate, the droppings were used to make gunpowder during the American Civil War.
6. Contrary to the saying "blind as a bat", bats are not blind. They do use ultrasounds and hearing to navigate in the dark.
7. It's true that some bats carry rabies and can survive with indefinitely with rabies, however you can't get rabies from guano, urine, blood or touching a bats fur. You can however contract rabies from a bat bite via saliva in a wound or even bat brain matter.
8. The smallest bat is the Bumblebee Bat weighing about what a penny weighs, while the largest bats the Flying Fox can weigh almost 3 lb!
9. Usually, bats give birth to a single baby called a pup who nurses on mother's milk.
10. Bats are important pollinators, over 300 fruits rely upon bats for pollination, including bananas, mangoes and avocadoes.
11. There are almost 1,500 bat species across the world, almost 50 in the US and Canada, 17 species in North Carolina and 7 species in the Charlotte metro region, the most common being Brown Bats and Mexican Free tailed.
Solocal Wildlife Removal can safely and humanly remove or evict bats and keep them out in accordance with NC Wildlife regulations.
Bumblebee Bat
Flying Fox Bat
Bats in Mecklenburg County - Charlotte, NC
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