CLASSIFICATION
Bats are mammals. They're warm blooded and they don't lay eggs.

FOOD
They drink milk.
Bats eat moths, mosquitoes and others.

PROTECTION
Introduced mammals such as stoats and kiore eat bats. Bats sleep during the day and feed at night.

COMMUNICATION
Bats have a type of radar system and echolation.

HABITAT
Bats roost in groups in caves, trees and holes in rocks. There are two kinds of bats in New Zealand.

CLASSIFICATION
Bats are mammals because they don't come out of eggs.

FOOD
The short tailed bat can feed on the ground as well because it has no predators.   Bats hang upside down in dark caves because bats don't like light.

ECHO-LOCATION
High-pitched sounds are produced and bounced off and returned.

HABITAT

The short tailed bat likes to roost in hollow trees. Here they will cluster together to keep warm and talk to each other with a  chirpy sort of sound. Bats have up to one baby.

CLASSIFICATION
Bats are mammals. They drink milk so they are warm-blooded.

FOOD
They eat insects, fruit, flowers and frogs.

COMMUNICATION
They can find their food by their hearing.

 HABITAT
Trees and caves

by Fiona

 CLASSIFICATION
They are mammals. They are mammals because they drink milk from their mother.

LIFECYCLE
They are born very small.

HABITAT
Bats live in very many parts of the world like New Zealand, South America

 FOOD
They eat things such as insects like cicadas, beetles, cockroaches and  Crickets . Bats sleep upside down. Their eyes light up at so they can see in the  dark. They have a keen sense of smell. When they are upside down, to rest bats fold their legs. Bats find their way by using echolocation

PROTECTION
How do they protect themselves? Their eyes light up at night so they can see in the dark. Bats find their way by using echolocation.

by Laura

CLASSIFICATION
Bats are mammals because they drink milk. It's easy to tell what Bats are New Zealand bats because one type is a short tail Bat and another type is a long tail Bat. They are born live. They are warm-blooded.  They have hair so they are mammals.

LIFE CYCLE
The young bat is born. Young still suckling, they start catching insects Females leave the nursery so they can find males.

FOOD
Bats eat fish, frogs, fruit, and nectar.

PROTECTION
They use their high pitched sounds to scare their enemy away.

COMMUNICATION
Bats use echolocation for communication. Insect eating bats are nocturnal which means bats catch their food at night. But how do they find their food in the dark? The way they do find their food is echolocation. Echolocation has a different name, it is sonar. Bats can detect things as small as a human hair.

JUST SOME FACTS

1. Bats are the best bug control.
2. Bats have only one baby a year.
3. Bats are the only flying mammal.
4. The smallest bat weighs less than five cents.

LIFE CYCLE
1. A baby bat is born.
2. Bat still sucking on milk.
3. Bat starts catching insects.
4. Mating season starts.
5. Hibernation starts.
6. There is little activity while in hibernation.

HABITAT
The short tailed bat mostly lives in New Zealand and it's neighbouring islands.

ECHOLOCATION
Bats send out a high pitched sound called sonar. If an insect was flying through a cave the bat would send out a high pitched sound that would bounce off the insect and come back to the bat so it would know where to go.

 MYTHS
Bats get stuck in your hair. Bats are blind. Bats have rabies. Bats will suck your blood.

FOOD
Bats eat moths, flies, sandflies and other insects.

CLASSIFICATION
Bats are mammals because of their hair, feed their babies on milk and don't lay their babies by eggs. New Zealand only has two bats, long tailed bat and short tailed bat.

LIFE CYCLE
Young born usually only one young still suckling start catching insects. Females leave nursery to find males. Mating season begins start building fat reserves search for suitable hibernation site.

FOOD
Short tailed bats eat mostly insects. Long tailed bats eat mostly flying insects 

COMMUNICATION
The bats use their communication to see how far away an insect is by sending semi circles of high-pitched sounds, which is called Echolocation.

 HABITAT
Short tailed bat lives in the native forest, same for the long-tailed bat. Urewera, Stewart Island, Wanganui.

PROTECTION

Short tailed bats have a nose which stands out with small whiskers around it. They can smell very well. Unlike most bats which catch their prey in the air. The short tailed bat is able to feed on the ground as well.  What is the worst enemy for the bat? Because it has no predators the bat adapted to hunting on ground with out being in danger.

CLASSIFICATION
Bats are mammals because they are warm blooded. They also have tongues.

FOOD
The short-tailed bat is able to feed on the ground because it has no predator.

WHAT BATS DO TO FLY
Before bats fly they have to jump down into the ground, they stay there until it is warm enough to fly. Bats hang upside down in dark caves because they don't like light. The long-tailed bat has a long tail and short ears. The short-tailed bat has a short tail and big ears. The long-tailed bat has skin attached to it's tail. People think that bats like light. Bats use echolocation to talk to other bats

CLASSIFICATION.
Bats are N.Z's only native land mammal. The Maori call them peka-peka,which means death and destruction.

LIFE CYCLE.
Bats don't lay eggs. Bats can live up to seven years. After they are born they only drink milk for 4-6 weeks. At 10 weeks old they can fly by themselves and hunt. Long tail bats hibernate [sleep] for three months.

FOOD
Bats use sharp front teeth to tear and rip their food, they then use smaller teeth to eat it. They eat insects, moths, forest fruit, nectar, pollen, nesting birds and fish.

PROTECTION
Bats have a kind of radar and echolocation [sound wave high pitch]. Bats use these to hunt and also hide from  their enemies.

HABITAT
Bats live from Kaitaia in Northland to Fiordland in the South Island. They roost in groups in caves, trees, holes in rocks, barns, and under bridges.

COMMUNICATION
Bats have an ultra-sonic chirp. There are two kinds of bats that live in New Zealand. They are as small as a mouse. New Zealand bats are harmless.

CLASSIFICATION
What type of New Zealand bats? Shortail and longtail bats What are they?
Mammals

LIFE CYCLE
On bigger births bats live high up in hollow trees.
December: Young born: One
January: Young still suckling
February: Starts catching insects
March: Mating season begins
April: Search for hibernation
May: Hibernation begins although still some activity in warm weather.

FOOD
Bats feed on: moths, mayflies, mosquitoes, sandflies and other insects.

ECHOLOCATION
They send a high-pitched sound. Also called sonar.

HABITAT
Here in New Zealand we have two species of bats not found in any other country. One, the Longtail bat, is found from the top of the North to the bottom of South Island. The other is the Shortailed bat.

 PROTECTION: ENEMIES.
People have been killing bats so they can eat their meat.

ANATOMY OF THE BAT.
Bats can fly up to 50 km per hour. Eyes can see as well or better than us.

COMMUNICATION.

Bat sends out a sound and it comes back.

CLASSIFICATION:
What are they?
Mammals. They don't lay eggs.

FOOD
What do they eat?
Short-tailed bats catch insects on the wing. On a tree. They pollinate flowers when feeding on nectar.

COMMUNICATION:
They communicate by echolocation.

HABITAT:
They live in native forests in New Zealand and dark places in a cave.
Baby bats are three-cm when they are born.

CLASSIFICATION
What are they?
Mammals.

LIFE CYCLE
When they were born they were born very tiny and they are short

FOOD
NZ bats like to eat fruit, pollen, and nectar.

COMMUNICATION
The bats use their communication  to see how far away  insects are by sending out messages.

PROTECTION
They protect themselves if there's any danger near them. If anything touches them they will fight you back.

HABITAT
The bats live in dark caves and in dark forest. They like it  where it is dark .

The only New Zealand bats are short and long tailed bat.

CLASSIFICATION
They are mammals because they have warm blood, hair, feed by milk, not born by eggs.

FOOD
What they eat: mosquitoes, sandflies and other insects. They also eat fruit, nectar, pollen, nesting birds or fish. A long tailed bat's way of catching insects is by scooping them up with its tail. The short tailed bat catches them by the wing.

COMMUNICATION
The bats use their communication to see how far away an insect is by sending semi circles of high-pitched sounds. Then they know how far away it is.

HABITAT
They live in the North Island, South Island and Stewart Island. In New Zealand there are only two species of bats left, long and short tailed bat.

PROTECTION
The short tailed bat has a nose that stands out so they can smell their prey

It can also feed on the ground because it has no predators. They protect themselves by hiding in a place that they should not find them.

LIFE CYCLE
June young born, usually only one. July, young still sucking. August, young start catching insect, females leave nursery to find males, September, mating season begins, start building fat reserves for hibernation, October, search for suitable hibernation site.

Only New Zealand bats are Short and long tailed bats.

CLASSIFICATION
They are mammals because they have warm blood, hair, feed by milk, they are not born in an egg.

FOOD
What they eat: mosquitoes, sandflies and other insects, fruits, nectar, pollen and nesting birds or fish. A long-tailed bats way of catching insects is by scooping them up with its tail. The short tailed bat scoops insects up with their wings.

COMMUNICATION
The bats use their communication to see how far away insects are by sending out messages.

HABITAT

Here in New Zealand we have two species of bats not found in any other country. The long tailed bat is found from the top of the North Island to the bottom of the South Island. The lesser short tailed bat is now found only in the Tarrua Forest Park in the North Island.

PROTECTION
Short tailed bats have a nose which stands out with small whiskers around it. They can smell very well indeed. Unlike most bats which catch their prey in the air, the short tailed bat is able to feed on the ground as well because it has no predators.

LIFE CYCLE
December, young born, usually only one,
January, young still suckling.
February, young start catching insects. Females leave nursery to find males.
March, mating season begins. Start building fat reserves for hibernation.
April, search for suitable hibernation site.

Rachel O.