4/12/2023 0 Comments Bats drink blood sleep![]() ![]() And don't worry – vampire bats do not like to drink human blood. There are only 3 types of vampire bats and they all live in Central and South America. So what other types of food do bats eat? There are bats that eat birds, fish, frogs, lizards, even other bats. Some frugivores have been known to drink sugar water from humming bird feeders. Their favorite foods are figs, mangoes, dates, and bananas. There are some bats that like to eat fruit, seeds, and pollen from flowers. And some bat colonies have millions of bats! Just imagine how many more insects there might be without these insectivorous bats. Did you know that one little brown bat can eat up to 500 mosquito-sized insects in an hour? Now that's a lot of insects. These bats like to eat beetles, moths, mosquitoes, and more. Most bats eat insects and are called insectivores. Which would be like eating 200 Volkswagen Beetle cars. ![]() The 20 million Mexican free-tail bats that live in Bracken Cave can eat approximately 200 tons of insects in one night.
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