MAX THE BAT

Greetings, my human dudes.

My name is Max the Brown Bat. Max stands for "Maximum" because to be a bat is too be ultra cool.  Many Humans are afraid of bats and think we are gross and I say "No way man, get a real job"   Bats are really most excellent for the things we do and don't do.  First of all, bats DO NOT fly in peoples hair.  Give me a break, I've got better things to do.  Some folks think we are dirty which is a really uncool thing to say because you have to be a clean machine to do all the flying I do.  Now let me tell you the things that we can do.  I am a bodacious flyer and did you know that bats are the only mammal that can truly fly.  I eat bugs that fly at night so I have to be a good flyer. I can do the most radical turns and loops in mid-air to snag them.   Not all bats eat insects.  Believe it or not, some bats eat fruit and pollinate plants like a honey bee does. Eating fruits and veggies isn't my style because there is nothing I like more than a big juicy mosquito.  On a good night I can catch over 3,000 bugs in a single hour.  That's the reason some humans put up bat houses to encourage us to hang around.

Despite what a lot of humans think, we bats are not blind. We can see just fine but since we hunt at night when there is no light we use a little thing called ECHO-LOCATION.  Echo-Location is the ultimate way to navigate.  Instead of using my eyes to see I use my ears.  I make these high pitched squeaks and I can tell by the way the sound bounces back where I am and where everything is around me.  It is kinda of like how planes use radar.

Flying around takes mega amounts of energy so I either have to eat a lot or stay still.  As a matter of fact I have to hibernate in a cave or hollow tree in the Winter because there are no bugs to eat.  I stay in this deep sleep until the bugs start flying around in the Spring.

Well dudes, I gotta cruise.  See ya man!

Max the Brown Bat