Luckily, no animals rely on the little brown bat as a regular source of food. D.D.T. killed a lot of bats but in 1972 people stopped using it. The little brown bat was treated badly by Indians. They did mean rituals with all kinds of bats. Amazingly there are over 1,200 kinds of bats.
Young bats ride on their mothers chest.
The bat has trouble adjusting to the different seasons. It lives 10-24 years. Something that might surprise you is that bats are mammals. The bat eats mainly insects. It has a chemical that helps break up the insects exoskeleton.