During the week of Halloween, we learned about our little, furry, nighttime friends, BATS!
We learned that bats are the only mammals that can fly. They are also extremely beneficial, eating mosquitoes and other flying insects by the hundreds each night. A single bat can eat up to 3,000 mosquitoes in one night.
The friends above were making their bones look like the bones in the skeleton of a bat.
We also learned that bats are not blind, but they do use echolocation to find food in the dark of the night.
Echolocation, also called bio sonar, is the biological sonar used by several kinds of animals. Echo-locating animals emit calls out to the environment and listen to the echoes of those calls that return from various objects near them.
These friends are attempting to use echolocation to find their way and to find food in the dark. "Squeak!" "Tree!" "Squeak!" "Mosquito!"
A big thank you goes out to the Minnesota DNR for loaning us a bat kit for the week. Our children got the chance to be Bat Biologists and learn how scientists study bats. Maybe you have a budding bat biologist at home!
Check out the fun pictures below!
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