A vampire bat's habitat can be a roost in a hollow, a cave, a tree, and a building. The Fisherman bat can detect objects as thin as humans hair. One bat may eat up to 3,000 insects in a night. There are over 940 species of bats in the world. We learned that bats are the only mammal that can attain true flight.
Bats can consume large quantities of insects in an hour.
This makes them very valuable to our environment. In Virginia they have 11 species - 3 of which are endangered. We learned that bats are mammals. We also learned that Big Brown Bats eat flying insects. We also learned that vampire bats drink only two tablespoons of blood a night.