Amazing, fascinating, bizarre are words that barely start to describe
the bats of the world. Some are big and some tiny. Many have a diet of
insects and fruit, yet there are others with more unusual tastes in food
- such as the fisherman bat which uses its claws to catch fish and the
unjustly demonized blood-eating vampire bats.
Bat expert Phil
Richardson takes the reader on a guided tour of the nocturnal world of
bats: where they live, how they feed, and how they survive in almost
every habitat on the planet. He uses his experiences of bat watching
around the world to describe their complex life cycles, explaining how
you can watch and study bats and help conserve these often threatened
mammals. He also introduces many of the different species that have
fitted so well into the environment.
Bats will not fly into your
hair, and they are not blind, though most find their food and avoid
obstacles in the darkness of night not by vision but by using their
remarkable and highly developed sense of echolocation. Their role in
pollination is crucial to the environment in which they live. Wherever
you live, there are likely to be bats near you, so discover more with
the help of this highly readable and beautifully illustrated book.
Bats - Phil Richardson
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£12.99