Small hunters with a role in the landscape
Eating insects also connects bats to fields and forests.
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Insectivorous bats connect night to fields and forests. By feeding, they help control insect populations, including species that can affect agriculture and trees. The text of ICNF invites you to know this ecological function beyond the myths associated with bats.
Worldwide, there are other diets and other relationships: bats that consume fruit can contribute to the regeneration of forests; those that feed on pollen participate in pollination. These global examples do not attribute these diets to species registered in Cabeceiras.
Thinking about food is a way of relating the animal to the landscape. What resources do you look for? What other organisms enter this relationship? The ecological role is not limited to the number of individuals we can see. For local history, this explanation follows the reading of the documental register of ferred bat; it does not add a new observation.
Eat, orient and rest
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How do you get the information back by sound?
The echo carries information; it does not mean that the animal is blind.
Listen to the echo to find the way →What changes over the year?
Home, creation and hibernation place different needs.
A different house throughout the year →What is documented in Cabeceiras?
The environmental study refers to the species, without providing a current count here.
A bat also entered the documents of the territory →
Source and context
ICNF — There are bats in the air..., text by Cristina Girão Vieira
Accessed: . Editorial summary; the date of consultation is not the date of the facts.