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Originally Posted by montsnmags
Rodents? Don't make me pull out my Encyclopaedia Pedantica.
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I stand corrected, a bat is a mammal in the order chiroptera, rodents are mammals in the order rodentia. I was told by my Strata that a bat house wasn't a good idea as we wanted to keep rodents away and bats were rodents, I'll have to let them know too!
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Originally Posted by montsnmags
Also, as above, there's a reason that Fruit Bats are also sometimes called Flying Foxes. "Little" is another word I wouldn't use to describe them (which makes that little ringtail possum all the braver for charging the Fruit Bat crash-climbing around our palm trees for their fruit).
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I have to agree that the fruit bat is pretty big. In BC, Canada some of them are very small. What I like best about our local bats is "
All Canadian bats eat insects exclusively. On a summer night a bat may consume half of its body weight, eating as many as 600 insects an hour ". Here is a picture of one of our local bats, the Townsend's Big-eared Bat.
