Contact Us
We can be contacted at any time to provide advice and assistance to ensure these delicate little creatures receive prompt attention.
They may be injured and need rescuing or they may just need to be left in a secure/safe place until dusk when they can be released back into the wild.
Adelaide Bat Care is a voluntary service.
PLEASE SPEAK WITH US SHOULD THE BAT PASS AWAY SO THAT THE BAT CAN BE FORWARDED TO OUR SENIOR VETERINARIAN.
Primary Contact
Mary Crichton
Phone: 08 8353 4443
Mobile: 0422 182 443
Email: info@adelaidebatcare.com.au
Email: mary.crichton@gmail.com
Mary Crichton
Phone: 08 8353 4443
Mobile: 0422 182 443
Email: info@adelaidebatcare.com.au
Email: mary.crichton@gmail.com
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Terry Reardon, the Tothill Family and Dr Lindy Lumsden for their photographs, footage and comprehensive information.
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Bats go into ‘torpor’ during the cooler/colder months from approximately May to August.
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The rare Ghost Bat can be viewed at the Adelaide Zoo. These Ghost Bats are part of the Australasian Regional Zoos Program. The Adelaide Zoo has had reasonable success with breeding Ghost Bats, and have bred 17 individuals in the past 10 years.
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The most commonly ‘heard’ bats around Adelaide are the White-Striped Freetail Bat and the Yellow-Bellied Sheathtail Bat (due to humans only being able to hear at approximately 20khz and below).
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Bats have incredible membranes in between their elongated fingers. They do have a thumb and four fingers.
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Bats can hang upside down by their feet, with little effort. It takes more effort for a bat to release the tendons in its feet to fly away.
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Bats are placental mammals giving birth to live pups/young just like humans do. Twins are common in some species of Bats.
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Bats can consume half their body weight in insects per night during the warmer/summer months. Pregnant bats can consume up to their entire body weight in insects per night in the warmer/summer months.
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Bats must not be disturbed when in ‘torpor’/hibernation as they can lose their energy/fat supply which has been stored/built-up ready for the winter, resulting in the eventual death of the bats.
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Bats are our most environmentally-friendly pest exterminators feeding on many mosquitoes, beetles, flies, moths, and many, many more insects.
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The word ‘Chiroptera’ – the Order of Bats – means ‘hand-wing’. Microchiroptera (sub-order) relates to our microbats. Megachiroptera (sub-order) relates to our megabats, for example, the Flying Foxes/Fruit/Blossom Bats.
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The most commonly ‘rescued’ bats are the Gould’s Wattled Bat, the Lesser Long-eared Bat, the Southern Freetail Bat, the Chocolate Wattled Bat.
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Bats have varying tails, for example, a tail which is enclosed fully within the membrane like the Gould’s Wattled Bat. The Yellow-Bellied Sheathtail Bat has half its tail enclosed in the tail membrane. The White-Striped Freetail Bat and the Southern Freetail Bat have a ‘free-tail’ with minimal tail membrane. The Flying Foxes have no tail.
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