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Family Pteropodidae What They Eat They eat native fruit, blossoms and nectar. Also they eat pollen and flowers, such as banana flowers. They do not eat insects or small mammals like other bats. Habitat They live in trees and bushes in the Northern Queensland. They live in buildings, burrows, caves and ruins. They mostly live in caves. They live in dark places, also mines, big rocks and thick vegetation. There are over 900 different kinds of bats around the world, most are found in the tropics. Bats are placed in two catagories, one is Megachiroptera (Mega-Bat), the other is Microchiroptera (Micro-Bat). Mega-Bats are large bats found in tropical rainforests (places like Australia and Africa). These bats are also called flying foxes because they look like foxes. They either eat fruit or drink nectar from flowers, and sometimes look for food during the day instead of at night. Micro-Bats are small bats found all over the world, including here in the U.S. They eat mostly insects, although some eat fruit. These bats use echolocation, or radar, to find their food. The largest bat in the world is the gigantic flying fox, found in Asia. It weighs over 2 pounds and has a wingspan of about 6 feet. This bat eats only fruit. The smallest bat is the hog-nosed bat or the bumblebee bat. It's found in Thailand and weighs about 2 grams. It has a 6 inch wingspan. Most bats in the United states eat insects. As a matter of fact, one little brown bat can eat more than 600 mosquitoes in a single hour. Bats eat half their body weight a night. In other parts of the world bats eat strange things indeed. Some bats only eat fish, some bats eat other bats, some bats eat spiders. |
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