![]() The largest bat (flying fox) has a wingspan of up to 6 feet!.Some bats can reach speeds of 60 miles per hour!.Some bats can fly up to 250 miles in a single night!.Millions of bats live under the bridge and fly out every night! You can see them by walking onto the bridge in the evening, or taking a river cruise underneath the bridge! Both are amazing choices.īats can actually be found on almost every single continent and live in caves, trees, bat houses, bridges, and other nooks and crannies! Interesting Bat Facts: ![]() Last year we drove to Carlsbad Caverns where we learned SO MUCH about bats! They have an amazing program called “Bat Flight” every afternoon (seasonally) where you can sit in an amphitheater in front of the cave entrance and watch the bats fly out every night at sunset.Īnother really awesome place to see bats is in Austin, Texas off of the Congress Bridge. This interactive bat life cycle printable hat template will let you not only decorate a hat you can wear but also lets kids manipulate the stages of the bat life cycle! ![]() One place I’ve learned a lot about bats is taking cave tours! Not all caves have bats, in fact out of 40+ cave tours that I’ve been on I’ve only ever seen a bat in a cave one time! (Except for Carlsbad Caverns – you can actually watch bats fly out of the cave entrance each evening – but you won’t find bats while you are hiking through the cave.) Learning about bats is a fascinating subject to study. But bats are a fascinating animal worth learning about all year! Enjoy our free printable bat life cycle hat template below as well as other free bat resources for learning!Įvery summer we have about six bats that fly over our property every night and we LOVE going out to watch them! We did put up a bat house a few years ago but haven’t had any luck with them living there yet.
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