All about bats | Happy Bat Week! 

Happy Bat Week everyone! This video is a brief overview of bats as an order (Chiroptera), their biology, ecological roles, threats and how we can all be bat friendly. Enjoy.
0:00 Intro
0:27 Batground
4:04 Niches
5:59 White-nose Syndrome
8:30 Being Bat-friendly
9:43 Conclusion
Correction: 1:27 no megabats hibernate, and megabats are found exclusively in the tropics of the old world. Many microbats hibernate, and microbats can be found on every continent except Antarctica.
Music is Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (If you get the reference you are my favourite ;)
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