Ever wanted to be your own sleeping bag? 🦇🍂😍 #BatWeek Sound up to learn how Eastern Red Bats (Lasiurus borealis) use their long tails to stay cozy while hanging by one foot... All the while, they're perfectly camouflaged as a little orange leaf! 🍂 🍂🍁LEAVE YOUR LEAVES!🍂🍁 This adorable, mosquito-chomping microbat species loves to hibernate in thick clumps of dead leaves that get caught in tree branches, and they'll even hibernate in leaf litter on the ground. That means when you rake up yo

Welcome to our first species feature! This is where we highlight one of our Australian bat species. For our first feature we have an eastern horseshoe bat, a species found all along the east coast of Australia. This species traditionally roosts in caves but has adapted well to sheltered culverts and old mine tunnels. They have this lovely appendage on their nose called a nose leaf. This helps refine their echolocation as they search for insects to eat. Echolocation is where microbats produce a p