The world’s more than 1,400 bat species play vital roles in ecosystems, from eating insects, to pollinating plants, and dispersing seeds. Bats are connected to humans and ecosystems in many ways, and all are affected when one link is removed from the chain. | Bat Conservation International

This is an Eastern Red Bat, female. Her name is Hope. She is super tame with me, as she knows me and im her caretaker PSA. Bats native to North America are all ‘Microbats’ they are small and insectivores. All large bats that are located over other parts of the world are known as “Megabats”. Microbats are the ones that use echolocation , Megabats dont (with a couple of exceptions). All bats roost hanging 🙃 upsidedown. Why? Because bats have to “drop” to be able to fly, as they cannot jump up lik