Bat

Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera

(/kaɪˈrɒptərə/).[a] With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they Bats
are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats Temporal range:
are more agile in flight than most birds, flying with their very
long spread-out digits covered with a thin membrane or
patagium. The smallest bat, and arguably the smallest extant
mammal, is Kitti's hog-nosed bat, which is 29–34 mm (1.1–
1.3 in) in length, 150 mm (5.9 in) across the wings and 2–2.6 g
(0.071–0.092 oz) in mass. The largest bats are the flying foxes,
with the giant golden-crowned flying fox (Acerodon jubatus)
reaching a weight of 1.6 kg (3.5 lb) and having a wingspan of
1.7 m (5 ft 7 in).

The second largest order of mammals after rodents, bats

comprise about 20% of all classified mammal species worldwide,
with over 1,400 species. These were traditionally divided into
two suborders: the largely fruit-eating megabats, and the
echolocating microbats. But more recent evidence has supported
Scientific classification
dividing the order into Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera,
with megabats as members of the former along with several Domain: Eukaryota
species of microbats. Many bats are insectivores, and most of the Kingdom: Animalia
rest are frugivores (fruit-eaters) or nectarivores (nectar-eaters).
Phylum: Chordata
A few species feed on animals other than insects; for example,
the vampire bats feed on blood. Most bats are nocturnal, and Class: Mammalia
many roost in caves or other refuges; it is uncertain whether bats Clade: Scrotifera
have these behaviours to escape predators. Bats are present
throughout the world, with the exception of extremely cold Clade: Apo-Chiroptera
regions. They are important in their ecosystems for pollinating Order: Chiroptera
flowers and dispersing seeds; many tropical plants depend Blumenbach, 1779
entirely on bats for these services.
Suborders
Bats provide humans with some direct benefits, at the cost of (traditional):
some disadvantages. Bat dung has been mined as guano from
caves and used as fertiliser. Bats consume insect pests, reducing Megachiroptera
the need for pesticides and other insect management measures.
Microchiroptera
Some bats are also predators of mosquitoes, suppressing the
transmission of mosquito-borne diseases. Bats are sometimes (present):
numerous enough and close enough to human settlements to
serve as tourist attractions, and they are used as food across Asia Yinpterochiroptera
and the Pacific Rim. However, fruit bats are frequently Yangochiroptera
considered pests by fruit growers. Due to their physiology, bats
are one type of animal that acts as a natural reservoir of many
pathogens, such as rabies; and since they are highly mobile,
social, and long-lived, they can readily spread disease among
themselves. If humans interact with bats, these traits become
potentially dangerous to humans.

Depending on the culture, bats may be symbolically associated

with positive traits, such as protection from certain diseases or Worldwide distribution of bat species
risks, rebirth, or long life, but in the West, bats are popularly
associated with darkness, malevolence, witchcraft, vampires, and death.

Etymology
An older English name for bats is flittermouse, which matches their name in other Germanic languages (for
example German Fledermaus and Swedish fladdermus), related to the fluttering of wings. Middle English had
bakke, most likely cognate with Old Swedish natbakka ('night-bat'), which may have undergone a shift from -k-
to -t- (to Modern English bat) influenced by Latin blatta, 'moth, nocturnal insect'. The word bat was probably
first used in the early 1570s.[2][3] The name Chiroptera derives from Ancient Greek: χείρ – kheír, 'hand'[4] and
πτερόν – pterón, 'wing'.[1][5]

Phylogeny and taxonomy

Evolution
The delicate skeletons of bats do not fossilise well; it is estimated that only 12% of
bat genera that lived have been found in the fossil record.[6] Most of the oldest
known bat fossils were already very similar to modern microbats, such as
Archaeopteropus (32 million years ago). The oldest known bat fossils include
Archaeonycteris praecursor and Altaynycteris aurora (55–56 million years ago),
both known only from isolated teeth.[7][8] The oldest complete bat skeleton is
Icaronycteris gunnelli (52 million years ago), known from two skeletons
discovered in Wyoming.[9][10] The extinct bats Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon and
Hassianycteris kumari, both of which lived 48 million years ago, are the first fossil
mammals whose colouration has been discovered: both were reddish-brown.[11][12] The early Eocene fossil
microchiropteran
Bats were formerly grouped in the superorder Archonta, along with the treeshrews Icaronycteris, from the
(Scandentia), colugos (Dermoptera), and primates.[13] Modern genetic evidence Green River Formation
now places bats in the superorder Laurasiatheria, with its sister taxon as
Ferungulata, which includes carnivorans, pangolins, odd-toed ungulates, and even-
toed ungulates.[14][15][16][17][18] One study places Chiroptera as a sister taxon to odd-toed ungulates
(Perissodactyla).[19]

⁠Boreoeutheria
⁠ Euarchontoglires (primates, treeshrews, rodents, rabbits)
⁠

⁠Laurasiatheria
⁠ Eulipotyphla (hedgehogs, shrews, moles, solenodons)
⁠
⁠Scrotifera
⁠
 ⁠
Chiroptera (bats)
⁠ Pholidota (pangolins)
⁠

⁠Ferae Carnivora (cats, hyenas, dogs, bears, seals,

⁠ ⁠
⁠
⁠ ⁠ weasels)
⁠
⁠Fereuungulata
⁠ ⁠ Perissodactyla (horses, tapirs, rhinos)
⁠

⁠Euungulata
⁠ Cetartiodactyla (camels, ruminants, whales)
⁠
⁠

Phylogenetic tree showing Chiroptera within Laurasiatheria, with Fereuungulata as its sister taxon according to a 2013 study[18]
The flying primate hypothesis proposed that when adaptations to flight are removed, megabats are allied to
primates by anatomical features not shared with microbats and thus flight evolved twice in mammals.[20]
Genetic studies have strongly supported the monophyly of bats and the single origin of mammal flight.[9][20]

Coevolutionary evidence
An independent molecular analysis trying to establish the dates when bat ectoparasites (bedbugs) evolved came
to the conclusion that bedbugs similar to those known today (all major extant lineages, all of which feed
primarily on bats) had already diversified and become established over 100 mya (i.e., long before the oldest
records for bats, 52 mya), suggesting that they initially all evolved on non-bat hosts and "bats were colonized
several times independently, unless the evolutionary origin of bats has been grossly underestimated."[21] Fleas,
as a group, are quite old (most flea families formed around the end of the Cretaceous[22]), but no analyses have
provided estimates for the age of the flea lineages associated with bats. The oldest known members of a
different lineage of bat ectoparasites (bat flies), however, are from roughly 20 mya, well after the origin of
bats.[23] The bat-ectoparasitic earwig family Arixeniidae has no fossil record, but is not believed to originate
more than 23 mya.[24]

Inner systematics

⁠ ⁠Megachiroptera Pteropodidae (megabats)

⁠ ⁠

⁠ Megadermatidae (false vampire bats)

Craseonycteridae (Kitti's hog-nosed bat)

⁠

⁠
⁠ ⁠Rhinolophoidea Rhinopomatidae (mouse-tailed bats)
⁠ ⁠ ⁠

⁠ Hipposideridae (Old World leaf-nosed bats)

⁠

Rhinolophidae (horseshoe bats)

⁠

⁠ ⁠Yangochiroptera ⁠ ⁠
⁠ ⁠ Miniopteridae (long winged bat)
⁠ ⁠

⁠ Noctilionidae (fisherman bats)

⁠
⁠
⁠
⁠ Mormoopidae (Pteronotus)
⁠
⁠Chiroptera
⁠ Mystacinidae (New Zealand short-tailed
⁠ ⁠Microchiroptera ⁠
bats)
⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠
⁠
⁠ ⁠
⁠ Thyropteridae (disc-winged bats)
⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠
⁠
⁠ Furipteridae
⁠ ⁠
⁠ ⁠
⁠
⁠ Mormoopidae (Mormoops)
⁠
 ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Phyllostomidae (New World leaf-nosed
⁠
⁠ bats)

⁠ Molossidae (free-tailed bats)

⁠
⁠
⁠
⁠ Emballonuridae (sac-winged bats)
⁠

⁠ Myzopodidae (sucker-footed bats)

⁠
⁠
⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Emballonuridae (Taphozous)
⁠
⁠

⁠
⁠ ⁠ Natalidae (funnel-eared bats)
⁠
⁠
⁠
⁠ Vespertilionidae (vesper bats)
⁠

Internal relationships of the Chiroptera, divided into the traditional megabat and microbat clades, according to a 2011 study[25]
Genetic evidence indicates that megabats originated during the early Eocene, and belong within the four major
lines of microbats.[18] Two new suborders have been proposed; Yinpterochiroptera includes the Pteropodidae,
or megabat family, as well as the families Rhinolophidae, Hipposideridae, Craseonycteridae, Megadermatidae,
and Rhinopomatidae.[26] Yangochiroptera includes the other families of bats (all of which use laryngeal
echolocation), a conclusion supported by a 2005 DNA study.[26] A 2013 phylogenomic study supported the two
new proposed suborders.[18]

⁠ Yangochiroptera (as above)

⁠

⁠ Pteropodidae (megabats)
⁠

⁠Chiroptera ⁠
⁠ ⁠
⁠ ⁠Yinpterochiroptera ⁠ Megadermatidae (false vampire bats)
⁠ ⁠ ⁠
⁠ ⁠Rhinolophoidea
⁠
⁠ horseshoe bats and allies
⁠

Internal relationships of the Chiroptera, with the megabats subsumed within Yinpterochiroptera, according to a 2013 study[18]

The 2003 discovery of an early fossil bat from the 52-million-year-old Green River Formation, Onychonycteris
finneyi, indicates that flight evolved before echolocative abilities.[27][28] Onychonycteris had claws on all five of
its fingers, whereas modern bats have at most two claws on two digits of each hand. It also had longer hind legs
and shorter forearms, similar to climbing mammals that hang under branches, such as sloths and gibbons. This
palm-sized bat had short, broad wings, suggesting that it could not fly as fast or as far as later bat species.
Instead of flapping its wings continuously while flying, Onychonycteris probably
alternated between flaps and glides in the air.[9] This suggests that this bat did not fly as
much as modern bats, but flew from tree to tree and spent most of its time climbing or
hanging on branches.[29] The distinctive features of the Onychonycteris fossil also
support the hypothesis that mammalian flight most likely evolved in arboreal
locomotors, rather than terrestrial runners. This model of flight development, commonly
known as the "trees-down" theory, holds that bats first flew by taking advantage of height
and gravity to drop down on to prey, rather than running fast enough for a ground-level
take off.[30][31]

Giant golden-
crowned flying fox,
Acerodon jubatus

⁠ Myzopodidae
⁠
⁠Emballonuroidea ⁠ Emballonuridae
⁠ ⁠ ⁠
⁠ ⁠ Nycteridae
⁠
⁠ Mystacinidae
⁠
⁠ Mormoopidae
⁠ ⁠
⁠ ⁠
Phyllostomidae
⁠
⁠Noctilionoidea
⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Furipteridae
⁠ ⁠ ⁠
⁠Yangochiroptera
⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Noctilionidae
⁠ ⁠ ⁠
⁠ Thyropteridae
⁠
⁠ Natalidae
⁠
⁠ Molossidae
⁠Chiroptera ⁠
⁠
⁠Vespertilionoidea ⁠ Miniopteridae
⁠ ⁠ ⁠
⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Cistugidae
⁠ ⁠ ⁠
⁠ ⁠
Vespertilionidae
⁠
⁠ Pteropodidae
⁠
⁠Rhinolophoidea ⁠ Hipposideridae
⁠
⁠ ⁠ Rhinolophidae
⁠ ⁠
⁠ Rhinonycteridae
⁠Yinpterochiroptera
 ⁠ ⁠
⁠ ⁠ Craseonycteridae
⁠ ⁠
⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Megadermatidae
⁠ ⁠
⁠ Rhinopomatidae
⁠
Familial relationships of bats according to a 2023 study using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA from 151 species. Two different
analysis methods were used which resulted in almost identical trees, except for the position of Emballonuroidea and the
relationships between Rhinolophidae, Hipposideridae, and Rhinonycteridae, which are represented as polytomies.[32]
The molecular phylogeny was controversial, as it pointed to microbats not having a unique common ancestry,
which implied that some seemingly unlikely transformations occurred. The first is that laryngeal echolocation
evolved twice in bats, once in Yangochiroptera and once in the rhinolophoids.[33] The second is that laryngeal
echolocation had a single origin in Chiroptera, was subsequently lost in the family Pteropodidae (all megabats),
and later evolved as a system of tongue-clicking in the genus Rousettus.[34] Analyses of the sequence of the
vocalization gene FoxP2 were inconclusive on whether laryngeal echolocation was lost in the pteropodids or
gained in the echolocating lineages.[35] Echolocation probably first derived in bats from communicative calls.
The Eocene bats Icaronycteris (52 million years ago) and Palaeochiropteryx had cranial adaptations suggesting
an ability to detect ultrasound. This may have been used at first mainly to forage on the ground for insects and
map out their surroundings in their gliding phase, or for communicative purposes. After the adaptation of flight
was established, it may have been refined to target flying prey by echolocation.[29] Analyses of the hearing gene
Prestin seem to favour the idea that echolocation developed independently at least twice, rather than being lost
secondarily in the pteropodids,[36] but ontogenic analysis of the cochlea supports that laryngeal echolocation
evolved only once.[37]

Classification
Bats are placental mammals. After rodents, they are the largest order, making up about 20% of mammal
species.[38] In 1758, Carl Linnaeus classified the seven bat species he knew of in the genus Vespertilio in the
order Primates. Around twenty years later, the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach gave them
their own order, Chiroptera.[39] Since then, the number of described species has risen to over 1,400,[40]
traditionally classified as two suborders: Megachiroptera (megabats), and Microchiroptera
(microbats/echolocating bats).[41] Not all megabats are larger than microbats.[42] Several characteristics
distinguish the two groups. Microbats use echolocation for navigation and finding prey, but megabats apart
from those in the genus Rousettus do not.[43] Accordingly, megabats have a well-developed eyesight.[41]
Megabats have a claw on the second finger of the forelimb.[44][45] The external ears of microbats do not close to
form a ring; the edges are separated from each other at the base of the ear.[45] Megabats eat fruit, nectar, or
pollen, while most microbats eat insects; others feed on fruit, nectar, pollen, fish, frogs, small mammals, or
blood.[41]

Below is a table chart following the bat classification of families recognized by various authors of the ninth
volume of Handbook of the Mammals of the World published in 2019:[46]
 Chiroptera Blumenbach, 1779

Yinpterochiroptera Springer, Teeling, Madsen, Stanhope & Jong, 2001

Pteropodoidea J. E. Gray, 1821

Number of
Family English Name Image Figure
Species

Pteropodidae J. E. Gray, 1821 Old World fruit bats 191

Rhinolophoidea J. E. Gray, 1825

Number of
Family English Name Image Figure
Species "Chiroptera" from Ernst
Haeckel's Kunstformen der
Rhinopomatidae Bonaparte, Natur, 1904
Mouse-tailed bats 6
1838

Craseonycteridae Hill, 1974 Hog-nosed bat 1

Megadermatidae H. Allen,
False-vampires 6
1864

Rhinonycteridae J. E. Gray,
Trident bats 9
1866

Hipposideridae Lydekker, 1891 Old World leaf-nosed bats 88

Rhinolophidae J. E. Gray,
Horseshoe bats 109
1825

Yangochiroptera Koopman, 1984

Emballonuroidea Gervais in de Castelnau, 1855

Number of
Family English Name Image Figure
Species
Nycteridae Van der Hoeven, 1855 Slit-faced bats 15

Emballonuridae Gervais in de Castelnau,

Sheath-tailed bats 54
1855

Noctilionoidea J. E. Gray, 1821

Number of
Family English Name Image Figure
Species

Myzopodidae Thomas, 1904 Madagascar and western sucker-footed bats 2

Mystacinidae Dobson, 1875 New Zealand short-tailed bats 2

Thyropteridae Miller, 1907 Disk-winged bats 5

Furipteridae J. E. Gray, 1866 Smoky bat and thumbless bat 2

Noctilionidae J. E. Gray, 1821 Bulldog bats 2

Ghost-faced, naked-backed and mustached

Mormoopidae Saussure, 1860 18
bats

Phyllostomidae J. E. Gray, 1825 New World leaf-nosed bats 217

 Vespertilionoidea J. E. Gray, 1821
Number of
Family English Name Image Figure
Species

Natalidae J. E. Gray, 1825 Funnel-eared bats 10

Molossidae Gervais in de Castelnau, 1855 Free-tailed bats 126

Miniopteridae Dobson, 1875 Long-fingered and bent-wing bats 38

Cistugidae Lack et al., 2010 Wing-gland bats 2

Vespertilionidae J. E. Gray, 1821 Vesper bats 496

Anatomy and physiology

Skull and dentition

The head and teeth shape of bats can vary by species. In general, megabats
have longer snouts, larger eye sockets and smaller ears, giving them a more
dog-like appearance, which is the source of their nickname of "flying
foxes".[47] Among microbats, longer snouts are associated with nectar-
feeding,[48] while vampire bats have reduced snouts to accommodate large
incisors and canines.[49]

Small insect-eating bats can have as many as 38 teeth, while vampire bats
have only 20. Bats that feed on hard-shelled insects have fewer but larger
teeth with longer canines and more robust lower jaws than species that prey A preserved megabat showing how
on softer bodied insects. In nectar-feeding bats, the canines are long while the skeleton fits inside its skin

the cheek-teeth are reduced. In fruit-eating bats, the cusps of the cheek
teeth are adapted for crushing.[48] The upper incisors of vampire bats lack enamel, which keeps them razor-
sharp.[49] The bite force of small bats is generated through mechanical advantage, allowing them to bite
through the hardened armour of insects or the skin of fruit.[50]

Wings and flight

Bats are the only mammals capable of sustained flight, as opposed to gliding, as in the flying squirrel.[51] The
fastest bat, the Mexican free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis), can achieve a ground speed of 160 km/h
(100 mph).[52]

The finger bones of bats are much more flexible than those of other
mammals, owing to their flattened cross-section and to low levels of calcium
near their tips.[53][54] The elongation of bat digits, a key feature required for
wing development, is due to the upregulation of bone morphogenetic
proteins (Bmps). During embryonic development, the gene controlling Bmp
signalling, Bmp2, is subjected to increased expression in bat forelimbs –
0:09 resulting in the extension of the manual digits. This crucial genetic alteration
helps create the specialized limbs required for powered flight. The relative
Little brown bat take off and flight
proportion of extant bat forelimb digits compared with those of Eocene
fossil bats have no significant differences, suggesting that bat wing
morphology has been conserved for over fifty million years.[55] During flight, the bones undergo bending and
shearing stress; the bending stresses felt are smaller than in terrestrial mammals, but the shearing stress is
larger. The wing bones of bats have a slightly lower breaking stress point than those of birds.[56]

As in other mammals, and unlike in birds, the radius is the main component of the forearm. Bats have five
elongated digits, which all radiate around the wrist. The thumb points forward and supports the leading edge of
the wing, and the other digits support the tension held in the wing membrane. The second and third digits go
along the wing tip, allowing the wing to be pulled forward against aerodynamic drag, without having to be thick
as in pterosaur wings. The fourth and fifth digits go from the wrist to the trailing edge, and repel the bending
force caused by air pushing up against the stiff membrane.[57] Due to their flexible joints, bats are more
maneuverable and more dexterous than gliding mammals.[58]

The wings of bats are much thinner and consist of more bones than the
wings of birds, allowing bats to maneuver more accurately than the latter,
and fly with more lift and less drag.[59] By folding the wings in toward their
bodies on the upstroke, they save 35 percent energy during flight.[60] The
membranes are delicate, tearing easily,[61] but can regrow, and small tears
heal quickly.[61][62] The surface of the wings is equipped with touch-
sensitive receptors on small bumps called Merkel cells, also found on human
fingertips. These sensitive areas are different in bats, as each bump has a Wing membranes (patagia) of
tiny hair in the center, making it even more sensitive and allowing the bat to Townsend's big-eared bat,
Corynorhinus townsendii
detect and adapt to changing airflow; the primary use is to judge the most
efficient speed at which to fly, and possibly also to avoid stalls.[63]
Insectivorous bats may also use tactile hairs to help perform complex maneuvers to capture prey in flight.[58]

The patagium is the wing membrane; it is stretched between the arm and finger bones, and down the side of the
body to the hind limbs and tail. This skin membrane consists of connective tissue, elastic fibres, nerves,
muscles, and blood vessels. The muscles keep the membrane taut during flight.[64] The extent to which the tail
of a bat is attached to a patagium can vary by species, with some having completely free tails or even no tails.[48]
The skin on the body of the bat, which has one layer of epidermis and dermis, as well as hair follicles, sweat
glands and a fatty subcutaneous layer, is very different from the skin of the wing membrane. Depending on the
bat species the presence of hair follicles and sweat glands will vary in the patagium.[65] This patagium is an
extremely thin double layer of epidermis; these layers are separated by a connective tissue center, rich with
collagen and elastic fibers. In some bat species sweat glands will be present in between this connective
tissue.[66] Furthermore, if hair follicles are present this supports the bat in order to adjust sudden flight
maneuvers.[67][68] For bat embryos, apoptosis (programmed cell death) affects only the hindlimbs, while the
forelimbs retain webbing between the digits that forms into the wing membranes.[69] Unlike birds, whose stiff
wings deliver bending and torsional stress to the shoulders, bats have a flexible wing membrane that can resist
only tension. To achieve flight, a bat exerts force inwards at the points where the membrane meets the skeleton,
so that an opposing force balances it on the wing edges perpendicular to the wing surface. This adaptation does
not permit bats to reduce their wingspans, unlike birds, which can partly fold their wings in flight, radically
reducing the wing span and area for the upstroke and for gliding. Hence bats cannot travel over long distances
as birds can.[57]

Nectar- and pollen-eating bats can hover, in a similar way to hummingbirds. The sharp leading edges of the
wings can create vortices, which provide lift. The vortex may be stabilized by the animal changing its wing
curvatures.[70]

Roosting and gaits

When not flying, bats hang upside down from their feet, a posture
known as roosting.[71] The femurs are attached at the hips in a way
that allows them to bend outward and upward in flight. The ankle
joint can flex to allow the trailing edge of the wings to bend
downwards. This does not permit many movements other than
hanging or clambering up trees.[57] Most megabats roost with the
head tucked towards the belly, whereas most microbats roost with
the neck curled towards the back. This difference is reflected in
the structure of the cervical or neck vertebrae in the two groups,
which are clearly distinct.[71] Tendons allow bats to lock their feet Group of megabats roosting
closed when hanging from a roost. Muscular power is needed to
let go, but not to grasp a perch or when holding on.[72]

When on the ground, most bats can only crawl awkwardly. A few species such as the New Zealand lesser short-
tailed bat and the common vampire bat are agile on the ground. Both species make lateral gaits (the limbs move
one after the other) when moving slowly but vampire bats move with a bounding gait (all limbs move in unison)
at greater speeds, the folded up wings being used to propel them forward. Vampire bats likely evolved these
gaits to follow their hosts while short-tailed bats developed in the absence of terrestrial mammal competitors.
Enhanced terrestrial locomotion does not appear to have reduced their ability to fly.[73]

Internal systems
Bats have an efficient circulatory system. They seem to make use of particularly strong venomotion, a rhythmic
contraction of venous wall muscles. In most mammals, the walls of the veins provide mainly passive resistance,
maintaining their shape as deoxygenated blood flows through them, but in bats they appear to actively support
blood flow back to the heart with this pumping action.[74][75] Since their bodies are relatively small and
lightweight, bats are not at risk of blood flow rushing to their heads when roosting.[76]

Bats possess a highly adapted respiratory system to cope with the demands of powered flight, an energetically
taxing activity that requires a large continuous throughput of oxygen. In bats, the relative alveolar surface area
and pulmonary capillary blood volume are larger than in most other small quadrupedal mammals.[77] During
flight the respiratory cycle has a one-to-one relationship with the wing-beat cycle.[78] Because of the limits of
mammalian lungs, bats cannot maintain high-altitude flight.[57]

It takes a lot of energy and an efficient circulatory system to work the flight muscles of bats. Energy supply to
the muscles engaged in flight requires about double the amount compared to the muscles that do not use flight
as a means of mammalian locomotion. In parallel to energy consumption, blood oxygen levels of flying animals
are twice as much as those of their terrestrially locomoting mammals. As the blood
supply controls the amount of oxygen supplied throughout the body, the circulatory
system must respond accordingly. Therefore, compared to a terrestrial mammal of
the same relative size, the bat's heart can be up to three times larger, and pump
more blood.[80] Cardiac output is directly derived from heart rate and stroke
volume of the blood;[81] an active microbat can reach a heart rate of 1000 beats per
minute.[82]

With its extremely thin membranous tissue, a bat's wing can significantly
contribute to the organism's total gas exchange efficiency.[83] Because of the high
energy demand of flight, the bat's body meets those demands by exchanging gas
through the patagium of the wing. When the bat has its wings spread it allows for
an increase in surface area to volume ratio. The surface area of the wings is about
85% of the total body surface area, suggesting the possibility of a useful degree of
gas exchange.[83] The subcutaneous vessels in the membrane lie very close to the
surface and allow for the diffusion of oxygen and carbon dioxide.[84]
The wings are highly
The digestive system of bats has varying adaptations depending on the species of vascularized membranes,
bat and its diet. As in other flying animals, food is processed quickly and effectively the larger blood vessels
visible against the light.[79]
to keep up with the energy demand. Insectivorous bats may have certain digestive
enzymes to better process insects, such as chitinase to break down chitin, which is a
large component of insects.[85] Vampire bats, probably due to their diet of blood, are the only vertebrates that
do not have the enzyme maltase, which breaks down malt sugar, in their intestinal tract. Nectivorous and
frugivorous bats have more maltase and sucrase enzymes than insectivorous, to cope with the higher sugar
contents of their diet.[86]

The adaptations of the kidneys of bats vary with their diets. Carnivorous and vampire bats consume large
amounts of protein and can output concentrated urine; their kidneys have a thin cortex and long renal papillae.
Frugivorous bats lack that ability and have kidneys adapted for electrolyte-retention due to their low-electrolyte
diet; their kidneys accordingly have a thick cortex and very short conical papillae.[86] Bats have higher
metabolic rates associated with flying, which lead to an increased respiratory water loss. Their large wings are
composed of the highly vascularized membranes, increasing the surface area, and leading to cutaneous
evaporative water loss.[79] Water helps maintain their ionic balance in their blood, thermoregulation system,
and removal of wastes and toxins from the body via urine. They are also susceptible to blood urea poisoning if
they do not receive enough fluid.[87]

The structure of the uterine system in female bats can vary by species, with some having two uterine horns
while others have a single mainline chamber.[88]

Senses

Echolocation
Microbats and a few megabats emit ultrasonic sounds to Pipistrellus pulses
produce echoes. Sound intensity of these echos are dependent
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on subglottic pressure. The bats' cricothyroid muscle controls
the orientation pulse frequency, which is an important function. Time-expanded recording of
Pipistrellus pipistrellus bat
This muscle is located inside the larynx and it is the only tensor echolocation calls and social call
muscle capable of aiding phonation.[89] By comparing the
outgoing pulse with the returning echoes, bats can gather Problems playing this file? See media help.
information on their surroundings. This allows them to detect
Feeding buzz
prey in darkness.[90] Some bat calls can reach 140 decibels.[91]
0:08
Microbats use their larynx to emit echolocation signals through
the mouth or the nose.[92] Microbat calls range in frequency Time-expanded recording of the
from 14,000 to well over 100,000 Hz, extending well beyond the feeding buzz of a bat homing in on
its prey
range of human hearing (between 20 and 20,000 Hz).[93]
Various groups of bats have evolved fleshy extensions around Problems playing this file? See media help.
and above the nostrils, known as nose-leaves, which play a role
in sound transmission.[94]

In low-duty cycle echolocation, bats can separate their calls and

returning echoes by time. They have to time their short calls to
finish before echoes return.[95] The delay of the returning echoes
allows the bat to estimate the range to their prey.[93] In high-duty
cycle echolocation, bats emit a continuous call and separate pulse
and echo in frequency using the Doppler effect of their motion in
flight. The shift of the returning echoes yields information relating
to the motion and location of the bat's prey. These bats must deal
with changes in the Doppler shift due to changes in their flight
speed. They have adapted to change their pulse emission
frequency in relation to their flight speed so echoes still return in
Principle of bat echolocation: orange is the call the optimal hearing range.[95][96]
and green is the echo.
In addition to echolocating prey, bat ears are sensitive to sounds
made by their prey, such as the fluttering of moth wings. The
complex geometry of ridges on the inner surface of bat ears helps to sharply focus echolocation signals, and to
passively listen for any other sound produced by the prey. These ridges can be regarded as the acoustic
equivalent of a Fresnel lens, and exist in a large variety of unrelated animals, such as the aye-aye, lesser galago,
bat-eared fox, mouse lemur, and others.[97][98][99] Bats can estimate the elevation of their target using the
interference patterns from the echoes reflecting from the tragus, a flap of skin in the external ear.[93]

By repeated scanning, bats can mentally construct an accurate image of the

environment in which they are moving and of their prey.[102] Some species
of moth have exploited this, such as the tiger moths, which produces
aposematic ultrasound signals to warn bats that they are chemically
protected and therefore distasteful.[100][101] Moth species including the tiger
moth can produce signals to jam bat echolocation. Many moth species have
a hearing organ called a tympanum, which responds to an incoming bat
signal by causing the moth's flight muscles to twitch erratically, sending the
moth into random evasive manoeuvres.[103][104][105]
The tiger moth (Bertholdia trigona)
can jam bat echolocation.[100][101]
Vision
The eyes of most microbat species are small and poorly developed, leading
to poor visual acuity, but no species is blind.[106] Most microbats have mesopic vision, meaning that they can
detect light only in low levels, whereas other mammals have photopic vision, which allows colour vision.
Microbats may use their vision for orientation and while travelling between their roosting grounds and feeding
grounds, as echolocation is effective only over short distances. Some species can detect ultraviolet (UV). As the
bodies of some microbats have distinct coloration, they may be able to discriminate colours.[51][107][108][109]
Megabat species often have eyesight as good as, if not better than, human vision. Their eyesight is adapted to
both night and daylight vision, including some colour vision.[109]

Magnetoreception
Microbats make use of magnetoreception, in that they have a high sensitivity to the Earth's magnetic field, as
birds do. Microbats use a polarity-based compass, meaning that they differentiate north from south, unlike
birds, which use the strength of the magnetic field to differentiate latitudes, which may be used in long-distance
travel. The mechanism is unknown but may involve magnetite particles.[110][111]

Thermoregulation
Most bats are homeothermic (having a stable body temperature), the
exception being the vesper bats (Vespertilionidae), the horseshoe bats
(Rhinolophidae), the free-tailed bats (Molossidae), and the bent-
winged bats (Miniopteridae), which extensively use heterothermy
(where body temperature can vary).[112][113] Compared to other
mammals, bats have a high thermal conductivity. The wings are filled
with blood vessels, and lose body heat when extended. At rest, they
may wrap their wings around themselves to trap a layer of warm air.
Thermographic image of a bat using
Smaller bats generally have a higher metabolic rate than larger bats,
trapped air as insulation
and so need to consume more food in order to maintain
homeothermy.[114]

Bats may avoid flying during the day to prevent overheating in the sun, since their dark wing-membranes
absorb solar radiation. Bats may not be able to dissipate heat if the ambient temperature is too high;[115] they
use saliva to cool themselves in extreme conditions.[57] Among megabats, the flying fox Pteropus hypomelanus
uses saliva and wing-fanning to cool itself while roosting during the hottest part of the day.[116] Among
microbats, the Yuma myotis (Myotis yumanensis), the Mexican free-tailed bat, and the pallid bat (Antrozous
pallidus) cope with temperatures up to 45 °C (113 °F) by panting, salivating, and licking their fur to promote
evaporative cooling; this is sufficient to dissipate twice their metabolic heat production.[117]

Bats also possess a system of sphincter valves on the arterial side of the vascular network that runs along the
edge of their wings. When fully open, these allow oxygenated blood to flow through the capillary network across
the wing membrane; when contracted, they shunt flow directly to the veins, bypassing the wing capillaries. This
allows bats to control how much heat is exchanged through the flight membrane, allowing them to release heat
during flight. Many other mammals use the capillary network in oversized ears for the same purpose.[118]

Torpor
Torpor, a state of decreased activity where the body temperature and metabolism decreases, is especially useful
for bats, as they use a large amount of energy while active, depend upon an unreliable food source, and have a
limited ability to store fat. They generally drop their body temperature in this state to 6–30 °C (43–86 °F), and
may reduce their energy expenditure by 50 to 99%.[119] Tropical bats may use it to avoid predation, by reducing
the amount of time spent on foraging and thus reducing the chance of being caught by a predator.[120] Megabats
were generally believed to be homeothermic, but three species of small megabats, with a mass of about 50
grams (13⁄4 ounces), have been known to use torpor: the common blossom bat (Syconycteris australis), the
long-tongued nectar bat (Macroglossus minimus), and the eastern tube-nosed bat (Nyctimene robinsoni).
Torpid states last longer in the summer for megabats than in the winter.[121]
During hibernation, bats enter a torpid state and decrease their body temperature
for 99.6% of their hibernation period; even during periods of arousal, when they
return their body temperature to normal, they sometimes enter a shallow torpid
state, known as "heterothermic arousal".[122] Some bats become dormant during
higher temperatures to keep cool in the summer months.[123]

Heterothermic bats during long migrations may fly at night and go into a torpid
state roosting in the daytime. Unlike migratory birds, which fly during the day and
feed during the night, nocturnal bats have a conflict between travelling and eating.
The energy saved reduces their need to feed, and also decreases the duration of
migration, which may prevent them from spending too much time in unfamiliar
places, and decrease predation. In some species, pregnant individuals may not use
torpor.[124][125] A tricoloured bat
(Perimyotis subflavus) in
torpor
Size
The smallest bat is Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai), which is
29–34 mm (11⁄8–13⁄8 in) long with a 150-millimetre (6 in) wingspan and weighs 2–2.6 g (1⁄16–3⁄32 oz).[126] It is
also arguably the smallest extant species of mammal, next to the Etruscan shrew.[127] The largest bats are a few
species of Pteropus megabats and the giant golden-crowned flying fox, (Acerodon jubatus), which can weigh
1.6 kg (31⁄2 lb) with a wingspan of 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in).[128] Larger bats tend to use lower frequencies and smaller
bats higher for echolocation; high-frequency echolocation is better at detecting smaller prey. Small prey may be
absent in the diets of large bats as they are unable to detect them.[129] The adaptations of a particular bat
species can directly influence what kinds of prey are available to it.[130]

Ecology
Flight has enabled bats to become one of the most widely distributed groups
of mammals.[131] Apart from the Arctic, the Antarctic and a few isolated
oceanic islands, bats exist in almost every habitat on Earth.[132] Tropical
areas tend to have more species than temperate ones.[133] Different species
select different habitats during different seasons, ranging from seasides to
mountains and deserts, but they require suitable roosts. Bat roosts can be
found in hollows, crevices, foliage, and even human-made structures, and
include "tents" the bats construct with leaves.[134] Megabats generally roost
Tent-making bats (Uroderma
bilobatum) in Costa Rica in trees.[135] Most microbats are nocturnal[136] and megabats are typically
diurnal or crepuscular.[137][138] Microbats are known to exhibit diurnal
behaviour in temperate regions during summer when there is insufficient
night time to forage,[139][140] and in areas where there are few avian predators during the day.[141][142]

In temperate areas, some microbats migrate hundreds of kilometres to winter hibernation dens;[143] others pass
into torpor in cold weather, rousing and feeding when warm weather allows insects to be active.[144] Others
retreat to caves for winter and hibernate for as much as six months.[144] Microbats rarely fly in rain; it interferes
with their echolocation, and they are unable to hunt.[145]

Food and feeding

Different bat species have different diets, including insects, nectar, pollen,
fruit and even vertebrates.[146] Megabats are mostly fruit, nectar and pollen
eaters.[137] Due to their small size, high-metabolism and rapid burning of
energy through flight, bats must consume large amounts of food for their
size. Insectivorous bats may eat over 120 percent of their body weight per
day, while frugivorous bats may eat over twice their weight.[147] They can
travel significant distances each night, exceptionally as much as 38.5 km 1:01
(24 mi) in the spotted bat (Euderma maculatum), in search of food.[148]
Bats use a variety of hunting strategies.[129] Bats get most of their water Bats feeding on insects over a lake
from the food they eat; many species also drink from water sources like lakes
and streams, flying over the surface and dipping their tongues into the
water.[149]

The Chiroptera as a whole are in the process of losing the ability to synthesise vitamin C.[150] In a test of 34 bat
species from six major families, including major insect- and fruit-eating bat families, all were found to have lost
the ability to synthesise it, and this loss may derive from a common bat ancestor, as a single mutation.[151][b] At
least two species of bat, the frugivorous bat (Rousettus leschenaultii) and the insectivorous bat (Hipposideros
armiger), have retained their ability to produce vitamin C.[152]

Insects
Most microbats, especially in temperate areas, prey on insects.[146] The diet of an insectivorous bat may span
many species,[153] including flies, mosquitos, beetles, moths, grasshoppers, crickets, termites, bees, wasps,
mayflies and caddisflies.[48][154][155] Large numbers of Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) fly
hundreds of metres above the ground in central Texas to feed on migrating moths.[156] Species that hunt insects
in flight, like the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus), may catch an insect in mid-air with the mouth, and eat it in
the air or use their tail membranes or wings to scoop up the insect and carry it to the mouth.[157][158] The bat
may also take the insect back to its roost and eat it there.[159] Slower moving bat species, such as the brown
long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus) and many horseshoe bat species, may take or glean insects from vegetation or
hunt them from perches.[48] Insectivorous bats living at high latitudes have to consume prey with higher
energetic value than tropical bats.[160]

Fruit and nectar

Fruit eating, or frugivory, is found in both major suborders. Bats prefer ripe
fruit, pulling it off the trees with their teeth. They fly back to their roosts to
eat the fruit, sucking out the juice and spitting the seeds and pulp out onto
the ground. This helps disperse the seeds of these fruit trees, which may
take root and grow where the bats have left them, and many species of
plants depend on bats for seed dispersal.[161][162] The Jamaican fruit bat
(Artibeus jamaicensis) has been recorded carrying fruits weighing 3–14 g
(1⁄8–1⁄2 oz) or even as much as 50 g (13⁄4 oz).[163]
An Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus
Nectar-eating bats have acquired specialised adaptations. These bats
aegyptiacus) carrying a fig
possess long muzzles and long, extensible tongues covered in fine bristles
that aid them in feeding on particular flowers and plants.[162][164] The tube-
lipped nectar bat (Anoura fistulata) has the longest tongue of any mammal relative to its body size. This is
beneficial to them in terms of pollination and feeding. Their long, narrow tongues can reach deep into the long
cup shape of some flowers. When the tongue retracts, it coils up inside the rib cage.[164] Because of these
features, nectar-feeding bats cannot easily turn to other food sources in times of scarcity, making them more
prone to extinction than other types of bat.[165][166] Nectar feeding also aids a variety of plants, since these bats
serve as pollinators, as pollen gets attached to their fur while they are feeding. Around 500 species of flowering
plant rely on bat pollination and thus tend to open their flowers at night.[162] Many rainforest plants depend on
bat pollination.[167]

Vertebrates
Some bats prey on other vertebrates, such as fish, frogs, lizards, birds and
mammals.[48][169] The fringe-lipped bat (Trachops cirrhosus,) for example, is
skilled at catching frogs. These bats locate large groups of frogs by tracking their
mating calls, then plucking them from the surface of the water with their sharp
canine teeth.[170] The greater noctule bat can catch birds in flight.[168] Some
species, like the greater bulldog bat (Noctilio leporinus) hunt fish. They use
echolocation to detect small ripples on the water's surface, swoop down and use
specially enlarged claws on their hind feet to grab the fish, then take their prey to a
feeding roost and consume it.[171] At least two species of bat are known to feed on
other bats: the spectral bat (Vampyrum spectrum), and the ghost bat The greater noctule bat
(Macroderma gigas).[172] (Nyctalus lasiopterus) uses
its large teeth to catch
birds.[168]
Blood
A few species, specifically the common, white-winged, and hairy-legged
vampire bats, feed only on animal blood (hematophagy). The common
vampire bat typically feeds on large mammals such as cattle; the hairy-
legged and white-winged vampires feed on birds.[173] Vampire bats target
sleeping prey and can detect deep breathing.[174] Heat sensors in the nose
help them to detect blood vessels near the surface of the skin.[175] They
pierce the animal's skin with their teeth, biting away a small flap,[176] and
lap up the blood with their tongues, which have lateral grooves adapted to
this purpose.[177] The blood is kept from clotting by an anticoagulant in the
The common vampire bat
saliva.[176]
(Desmodus rotundus) feeds on
blood (hematophagy).
Predators, parasites, and diseases
Bats are subject to predation from birds of prey, such as owls, hawks, and falcons, and at roosts from terrestrial
predators able to climb, such as cats.[178] Low-flying bats are vulnerable to crocodiles.[179] Twenty species of
tropical New World snakes are known to capture bats, often waiting at the entrances of refuges, such as caves,
for bats to fly past.[180] J. Rydell and J. R. Speakman argue that bats evolved nocturnality during the early and
middle Eocene period to avoid predators.[178] The evidence is thought by some zoologists to be equivocal so
far.[181]

As are most mammals, bats are hosts to a number of internal and external parasites.[182] Among ectoparasites,
bats carry fleas and mites, as well as specific parasites such as bat bugs and bat flies (Nycteribiidae and
Streblidae).[183][184] Bats are among the few non-aquatic mammalian orders that do not host lice, possibly due
to competition from more specialised parasites that occupy the same niche.[184]

White nose syndrome is a condition associated with the deaths of millions of bats in the Eastern United States
and Canada.[185] The disease is named after a white fungus, Pseudogymnoascus destructans, found growing on
the muzzles, ears, and wings of affected bats. The fungus is mostly spread from bat to bat, and causes the
disease.[186] The fungus was first discovered in central New York State in 2006 and spread quickly to the entire
Eastern US north of Florida; mortality rates of 90–100% have been observed in most affected caves.[187] New
England and the mid-Atlantic states have, since 2006, witnessed entire species completely extirpated and
others with numbers that have gone from the hundreds of thousands, even
millions, to a few hundred or less.[188] Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, and New
Brunswick have witnessed identical die offs, with the Canadian government making
preparations to protect all remaining bat populations in its territory.[189] Scientific
evidence suggests that longer winters where the fungus has a longer period to infect
bats result in greater mortality.[190][191][192] In 2014, the infection crossed the
Mississippi River,[193] and in 2017, it was found on bats in Texas.[194]

Bats are natural reservoirs for a large number of zoonotic pathogens,[195] including
rabies, endemic in many bat populations,[196][197][198] histoplasmosis both directly
and in guano,[199] Nipah and Hendra viruses,[200][201] and possibly the ebola A little brown bat with white
virus,[202][203] whose natural reservoir is yet unknown.[204][205] Their high nose syndrome
mobility, broad distribution, long life spans, substantial sympatry (range overlap)
of species, and social behaviour make bats favourable hosts and vectors of
disease.[206] Reviews have found different answers as to whether bats have more zoonotic viruses than other
mammal groups. One 2015 review found that bats, rodents, and primates all harbored significantly more
zoonotic viruses (which can be transmitted to humans) than other mammal groups, though the differences
among the aforementioned three groups were not significant (bats have no more zoonotic viruses than rodents
and primates).[207] Another 2020 review of mammals and birds found that the identity of the taxonomic groups
did not have any impact on the probability of harboring zoonotic viruses. Instead, more diverse groups had
greater viral diversity.[208]

They seem to be highly resistant to many of the pathogens they carry, suggesting a degree of adaptation to their
immune systems.[206][209][210] Their interactions with livestock and pets, including predation by vampire bats,
accidental encounters, and the scavenging of bat carcasses, compound the risk of zoonotic transmission.[197]
Bats are implicated in the emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in China, since they serve as
natural hosts for coronaviruses, several from a single cave in Yunnan, one of which developed into the SARS
virus.[199][211][212] However, they neither cause nor spread COVID-19.[213]

Behaviour and life history

Social structure
Some bats lead solitary lives, while others live in colonies of more than a
million.[214] For instance, the Mexican free-tailed bat fly for more than one
thousand miles to the 100-foot (30 m) wide cave known as Bracken Cave
every March to October which plays home to an astonishing twenty million
of the species,[215] whereas a mouse-eared bat lives an almost completely
solitary life.[216] Living in large colonies lessens the risk to an individual of
predation.[48] Temperate bat species may swarm at hibernation sites as Bracken Bat Cave, home to twenty
autumn approaches. This may serve to introduce young to hibernation sites, million Mexican free-tailed bats
signal reproduction in adults and allow adults to breed with those from
other groups.[217]

Several species have a fission-fusion social structure, where large numbers of bats congregate in one roosting
area, along with breaking up and mixing of subgroups. Within these societies, bats are able to maintain long-
term relationships.[218] Some of these relationships consist of matrilineally related females and their dependent
offspring.[219] Food sharing and mutual grooming may occur in certain species, such as the common vampire
bat (Desmodus rotundus), and these strengthen social bonds.[220][221] Homosexual fellatio has been observed
in the Bonin flying fox Pteropus pselaphon[222] and the Indian flying fox Pteropus medius,[223] though the
function and purpose of this behaviour is not clear.

Communication
Bats are among the most vocal of mammals and produce calls to attract
mates, find roost partners and defend resources. These calls are typically
low-frequency and can travel long distances.[48][225] Mexican free-tailed
bats are one of the few species to "sing" like birds. Males sing to attract
females. Songs have three phrases: chirps, trills and buzzes, the former
having "A" and "B" syllables. Bat songs are highly stereotypical but with
variation in syllable number, phrase order, and phrase repetitions between
individuals.[224] Among greater spear-nosed bats (Phyllostomus hastatus),
females produce loud, broadband calls among their roost mates to form
group cohesion. Calls differ between roosting groups and may arise from
Acoustics of the songs of Mexican vocal learning.[226]
free-tailed bats[224]
In a study on captive Egyptian fruit bats, 70% of the directed calls could be
identified by the researchers as to which individual bat made it, and 60%
could be categorised into four contexts: squabbling over food, jostling over position in their sleeping cluster,
protesting over mating attempts and arguing when perched in close proximity to each other. The animals made
slightly different sounds when communicating with different individual bats, especially those of the opposite
sex.[227] In the highly sexually dimorphic hammer-headed bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus), males produce
deep, resonating, monotonous calls to attract females. Bats in flight make vocal signals for traffic control.
Greater bulldog bats honk when on a collision course with each other.[225]

Bats also communicate by other means. Male little yellow-shouldered bats (Sturnira lilium) have shoulder
glands that produce a spicy odour during the breeding season. Like many other species, they have hair
specialised for retaining and dispersing secretions. Such hair forms a conspicuous collar around the necks of the
some Old World megabat males. Male greater sac-winged bats (Saccopteryx bilineata) have sacs in their wings
in which they mix body secretions like saliva and urine to create a perfume that they sprinkle on roost sites, a
behaviour known as "salting". Salting may be accompanied by singing.[225]

Reproduction and life cycle

Most bat species are polygynous, where males mate with multiple females.
Male pipistrelle, noctule and vampire bats may claim and defend resources
that attract females, such as roost sites, and mate with those females. Males
unable to claim a site are forced to live on the periphery where they have
less reproductive success.[228][48] Promiscuity, where both sexes mate with
multiple partners, exists in species like the Mexican free-tailed bat and the
little brown bat.[229][230] There appears to be bias towards certain males
among females in these bats.[48] In a few species, such as the yellow-winged
Group of polygynous vampire bats bat and spectral bat, adult males and females form monogamous
pairs.[48][231] Lek mating, where males aggregate and compete for female
choice through display, is rare in bats[232] but occurs in the hammerheaded
bat.[233]
For temperate living bats, mating takes place in late summer and early autumn.[234] Tropical bats may mate
during the dry season.[235] After copulation, the male may leave behind a mating plug to block the sperm of
other males and thus ensure his paternity.[236] In hibernating species, males are known to mate with females in
torpor.[48] Female bats use a variety of strategies to control the timing of pregnancy and the birth of young, to
make delivery coincide with maximum food ability and other ecological factors. Females of some species have
delayed fertilisation, in which sperm is stored in the reproductive tract for several months after mating. Mating
occurs in late summer to early autumn but fertilisation does not occur until the following late winter to early
spring. Other species exhibit delayed implantation, in which the egg is fertilised after mating, but remains free
in the reproductive tract until external conditions become favourable for giving birth and caring for the
offspring.[237] In another strategy, fertilisation and implantation both occur, but development of the foetus is
delayed until good conditions prevail. During the delayed development the mother keeps the fertilised egg alive
with nutrients. This process can go on for a long period, because of the advanced gas exchange system.[238]

For temperate living bats, births typically take place in May or June in the
Northern Hemisphere; births in the Southern Hemisphere occur in
November and December. Tropical species give birth at the beginning of the
rainy season.[239] In most bat species, females carry and give birth to a
single pup per litter.[240] At birth, a bat pup can be up to 40 percent of the
mother's weight,[48] and the pelvic girdle of the female can expand during
birth as the two-halves are connected by a flexible ligament.[241] Females
typically give birth in a head-up or horizontal position, using gravity to
make birthing easier. The young emerges rear-first, possibly to prevent the Newborn common pipistrelle,
wings from getting tangled, and the female cradles it in her wing and tail Pipistrellus pipistrellus
membranes. In many species, females give birth and raise their young in
maternity colonies and may assist each other in birthing.[242][243][241]

Most of the care for a young bat comes from the mother. In monogamous species, the father plays a role. Allo-
suckling, where a female suckles another mother's young, occurs in several species. This may serve to increase
colony size in species where females return to their natal colony to breed.[48] A young bat's ability to fly
coincides with the development of an adult body and forelimb length. For the little brown bat, this occurs about
eighteen days after birth. Weaning of young for most species takes place in under eighty days. The common
vampire bat nurses its offspring beyond that and young vampire bats achieve independence later in life than
other species. This is probably due to the species' blood-based diet, which is difficult to obtain on a nightly
basis.[244]

Life expectancy
The maximum lifespan of bats is three-and-a-half times longer than other
mammals of similar size. Six species have been recorded to live over thirty
years in the wild: the brown long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus), the little
brown bat (Myotis lucifugus), the Siberian bat (Myotis sibiricus), the lesser
mouse-eared bat (Myotis blythii) the greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus
ferrumequinum), and the Indian flying fox (Pteropus giganteus).[245] One
hypothesis consistent with the rate-of-living theory links this to the fact that
they slow down their metabolic rate while hibernating; bats that hibernate, The bat scientist Lauri Lutsar is
on average, have a longer lifespan than bats that do not.[246][247] checking the age of the bat he is
holding as part of a national
Another hypothesis is that flying has reduced their mortality rate, which monitoring program in Estonia
would also be true for birds and gliding mammals. Bat species that give
birth to multiple pups generally have a shorter lifespan than species that
give birth to only a single pup. Cave-roosting species may have a longer lifespan than non-roosting species
because of the decreased predation in caves. A male Siberian bat was recaptured in the wild after 41 years,
making it the oldest known bat.[247][248]

Interactions with humans

Conservation
Groups such as the Bat Conservation International[250] aim to increase
awareness of bats' ecological roles and the environmental threats they face.
This group called for Bat Appreciation Week from October 24–31 every year to
promote awareness on the ecological importance of bats.[251] In the United
Kingdom, all bats are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Acts, and
disturbing a bat or its roost can be punished with a heavy fine.[252] In Sarawak,
Malaysia, "all bats"[253] are protected under the Wildlife Protection Ordinance
1998,[253] but species such as the hairless bat (Cheiromeles torquatus) are still
eaten by the local communities.[254] Humans have caused the extinction of
several species of bat in modern history, the most recent being the Christmas
Island pipistrelle (Pipistrellus murrayi), which was declared extinct in Conservation statuses of
2009.[255] bats as of 2020 according
to the IUCN (1,314 species
Many people put up bat houses to attract bats.[256] The 1991 University of in total)[249]
Florida bat house is the largest occupied artificial roost in the world, with
around 400,000 residents.[257] In Britain, thickwalled and partly underground Critically endangered (1.6%)
World War II pillboxes have been converted to make roosts for bats,[258][259] Endangered (6.3%)
and purpose-built bat houses are occasionally built to mitigate damage to Vulnerable (8.3%)
habitat from road or other developments.[260][261] Cave gates are sometimes Near-threatened (6.7%)
installed to limit human entry into caves with sensitive or endangered bat Least concern (58.0%)
species. The gates are designed not to limit the airflow, and thus to maintain Data deficient (18.4%)
the cave's micro-ecosystem.[262] Of the 47 species of bats found in the United Extinct (0.7%)

States, 35 are known to use human structures, including buildings and bridges.
Fourteen species use bat houses.[263]

Bats are eaten in countries across Africa, Asia and the Pacific Rim. In some cases, such as in Guam, flying foxes
have become endangered through being hunted for food.[264] There is evidence that suggests that wind turbines
might create sufficient barotrauma (pressure damage) to kill bats.[265] Bats have typical mammalian lungs,
which are thought to be more sensitive to sudden air pressure changes than the lungs of birds, making them
more liable to fatal rupture.[266][267][268][269][270] Bats may be attracted to turbines, perhaps seeking roosts,
increasing the death rate.[266] Acoustic deterrents may help to reduce bat mortality at wind farms.[271]

The diagnosis and contribution of barotrauma to bat deaths near wind turbine blades have been disputed by
other research comparing dead bats found near wind turbines with bats killed by impact with buildings in areas
with no turbines.[272]

Cultural significance
Since bats are mammals, yet can fly, they are considered to be liminal beings in various traditions.[273] In many
cultures, including in Europe, bats are associated with darkness, death, witchcraft, and malevolence.[274]
Among Native Americans such as the Creek, Cherokee and Apache, the bat is identified as a trickster.[275] In
Tanzania, a winged batlike creature known as Popobawa is believed to be a
shapeshifting evil spirit that assaults and sodomises its victims.[276] In Aztec
mythology, bats symbolised the land of the dead, destruction, and
decay.[277][278][279] An East Nigerian tale tells that the bat developed its nocturnal
habits after causing the death of his partner, the bush-rat, and now hides by day to
avoid arrest.[280]

More positive depictions of bats exist in some cultures. In China, bats have been
associated with happiness, joy and good fortune. Five bats are used to symbolise
the "Five Blessings": longevity, wealth, health, love of virtue and peaceful
death.[281] The bat is sacred in Tonga and is often considered the physical
manifestation of a separable soul.[282] In the Zapotec civilisation of Mesoamerica,
the bat god presided over corn and fertility.[283]
Francisco de Goya, The
The Weird Sisters in Shakespeare's Macbeth used the Sleep of Reason Produces
fur of a bat in their brew. [284] In Western culture, the Monsters, 1797
bat is often a symbol of the night and its foreboding
nature. The bat is a primary animal associated with
fictional characters of the night, both villainous vampires, such as Count Dracula
and before him Varney the Vampire,[285] and heroes, such as the DC Comics
character Batman.[286] Kenneth Oppel's Silverwing novels narrate the adventures
of a young bat,[287] based on the silver-haired bat of North America.[288]

The bat is sometimes used as a heraldic symbol in Spain and France, appearing in
the coats of arms of the towns of Valencia, Palma de Mallorca, Fraga, Albacete, and
Montchauvet.[289][290][291] Three US states have an official state bat. Texas and
Zapotec bat god, Oaxaca,
350–500 CE
Oklahoma are represented by the Mexican free-tailed bat, while Virginia is
represented by the Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii
virginianus).[292]

Economics
Insectivorous bats in particular are especially helpful to farmers, as they control populations of agricultural
pests and reduce the need to use pesticides. It has been estimated that bats save the agricultural industry of the
United States anywhere from $3.7 billion to $53 billion per year in pesticides and damage to crops. This also
prevents the overuse of pesticides, which can pollute the surrounding environment, and may lead to resistance
in future generations of insects.[293]

Bat dung, a type of guano, is rich in nitrates and is mined from caves for use as fertiliser.[294] During the US
Civil War, saltpetre was collected from caves to make gunpowder. At the time, it was believed that the nitrate all
came from the bat guano, but it is now known that most of it is produced by nitrifying bacteria.[295]

The Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin, Texas, is the summer home to North America's largest urban bat colony,
an estimated 1,500,000 Mexican free-tailed bats. About 100,000 tourists a year visit the bridge at twilight to
watch the bats leave the roost.[296]

See also
Bat detector – Audio device to detect the presence of bat sound signals
 List of bats of the United States

Explanatory notes
a. from Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír) 'hand' and πτερόν (pterón) 'wing'[1]
b. Earlier reports that only fruit bats were deficient were based on smaller samples.[152]

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