Beth Sosic's Class |
| "Wow! We really liked
this project! We enjoyed studying the Indiana Bat. We liked writing about it and drawing
the pictures of it. We are going to continue studying bats around our area. We are even
going to build a bat house! We will be visiting a park near us in May to see the little
brown bats after they have flown back from the South." Ted, Jaime, Sarah, Justin,
Janel, Carolyn, Evan, Brian, Adrienne, and Emily!
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| There are 11
kinds of bats that live in Ohio. We decided to learn more about the Indiana bat. It
is an endangered species in Ohio and the United States. They just found lots of Indiana
bats roosting in Ohio in a mine. It was big news!
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| The Indiana bat
is a microbat. Microbats are smaller than megabats and they eat insects, not fruit.
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| The Indiana bat
uses echolocation to catch the insects.
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| It is closely
related to the gray bat and the little brown bat.
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| The Indiana
bat's body is brownish-gray and its wings are black. It has pink lips.
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| It has a keel
near its foot.
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| It has sharp
teeth and sharp molars. It feeds on moths, beetles, flies, and other insects.
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| The Indiana
bat's body is about 2 inches. Its wingspan is 8 inches. It weighs about as much as a
quarter!
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| It has one baby
each year.
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| In the fall, the
Indiana bat migrates to caves in Missouri, Kentucky, and southern Indiana. Only a few have
been known to stay in Ohio.
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| In the summer it
lives in wooded areas in Ohio. It likes to roost beneath loose pieces of bark on trees.
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