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I forgot about this topic!!!!

You would normally determine the sex of a bat by looking if it has the "crown jewls" or not

The life expectancy

I will have to find out!

this is a major floor in my bat knowledge!!!

I am back with good news!!!!


I have recently come back from Kruger with some good photos and feild info on bats

so all will be revealed in December/January

I think i am going to be starting my bat course now! I am still learning but i have also gained new knowledge and i have done some feild work aswell!!

so the next part will be up soon!!!

Imax- You asked what trees to plant in order to attract fruit bats to your garden. Here are some trees that peter taylor has recomended and that i have taken out of his book Bats of southern africa

1- Cape fig
2- swamp fig
3- Natal fig
4- Wild frangipani
5- Forest toad tree
6- Water pear
7- Coastel golden leaf
8- Natal ebony
9- Dune Myrtle
10- Cape ash
11- Wild custard apple
12- Yellow wood
13- White milkwood
14- Quinine tree
15- Tree fuschia
16- Marula
17- Natal Mahogoney
18- Wild plum
19- red milkwood

Hi batmad which bat is this?

Finnaly a challange

Ok,

As you can see this speciman has a tail that prtrudes from the tail membrane. This means that it is a free tailed bat! But i will need to know where it was sighted so that i can rule out other possibilities

So where was it sighted?

Not sure which bridge but it was around Mopani

Ok,

First of all There are 3 possible species that this bat could be!

Egyptian free tailed bat
Angola free tailed bat
little free tailed bat

I am probaley going to go with Angola free tailed!

I say this because, angola free tailed has a patch of skin that extends onto the body from the wing.

Have a look here!

This is ABCN!!!

African Bat consrvation news

http://www.africanbats.org/index.htm

Emiley86,

The life expectancy of a bat ranges from the different species. some bats have been recorded to live to up to 30 years and others 13. so it really depends on the species

Dotty as you see here in banna's photos, this is a egyptian free tailed bat and you can see it clearly as you cant see the flesh patch on the body that extends from the wing

Here is a link,

just sroll down to the bottom

http://www.sanparks.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=24108&start=0

Hi

what kind of Bats are found at the Skukuza camp,
can you tell me anything about them?

Batmad- is it a Epauletted fruit bat? Do they migrate to the region for guava?

These bats are walhbergs eppualated fruit bats. And in winter emiley86 they migrate just a little more north

Before i start with the species again i just want to show you some roosting sites of where i found bats in Kruger.


Here is a bat roost i found in one of the communial kitchens in Letaba. The brown is the oil that has come off the bats wings as they have enterd the roost site.



Then this is a photo of one of the bat houses in Letaba.



And here is also another bat roost that was found in one of the thatch huts.