How Do Bats Spend the Winter? Uncovering How Bats Overwinter

Friends in rural areas are probably no strangers to bats, and sometimes there may even be a bat roost in the home. So do you know how bats spend the winter? Let's take a look together!

1. How Bats Spend the Winter

Bats have the habit of hibernating in winter. Every winter, a bat's metabolic capacity declines, but the hibernation is not deep. During hibernation they sometimes still excrete and feed, and after waking they can immediately return to normal.

2. Fun Facts About Bats

1 Some bats can fly at speeds of more than 50 kilometers per hour.

2 Some bats fish; the Mexican fishing bat (Mexican bulldog bat) can catch more than 30 small fish in one night.

3 The hog-nosed bat has a wingspan of only 14 cm, while the flying fox, which is as big as a small dog, has a wingspan of up to 2 m.

4 A bat can capture and distinguish 250 sets of echoes in 1 second. (Note: one round trip of a sound wave counts as one set.)

5 Starting in autumn, bats accumulate a layer of fat on their lower abdomen, and by the time hibernation begins their body weight becomes more than 1.5 times that of summer.

6 A 20-gram insectivorous bat can eat 1.8 to 3.6 kilograms of insects a year.

7 A bat colony is made up of 100 bats.

That wraps up today's summary from Tuliu.com on the related question of how bats spend the winter. We hope this article has been helpful to you.