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The female period of gestation is three months. Baby bats are referred to as pups. Heart-nosed bats can only have one pup at a time. Females, like all mammals, feed their young via lactation. Females will carry their newborns until two months of age. After the third month, the pup is weaned from its mother and will then follow the mother around.
Pups are born in the summer, [12] usually sometime between May and July. [14] Unlike other bats species who usually produce one pup, eastern red bats have on average three pups at a time, and some eastern red bats have given birth to as many as five pups. [15] Females have four nipples, which allows them to nourish multiple offspring at once.
Unlike most bats, which bear only one pup per season, the western red bat can give birth to as many as four pups at once. [7] To compensate for larger litters, desert red bats have four nipples rather than two. The bats mate during August and September. Pups are born about 90 days after mating.
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The general assembly of North Carolina considered a bill in 2007 that would have made Rafinesque's big-eared bat as its state bat. The bill passed 92-15, but died in the state senate. [3] In 2020, the big brown bat was designated the official state mammal of the District of Columbia. [4]
In Texas alone, the bats save cotton farmers $740,000 in potential damage in a year. Some tropical bats eat fruit and are critical for dropping seeds to restore cleared or damaged forests.
Bats get a bad rap. Though they're most frequently associated with Halloween-type spookiness, the little guys can actually be pretty cute! 28 rescued baby bats given blankets and pacifiers
The delicate skeletons of bats do not fossilise well; it is estimated that only 12% of bat genera that lived have been found in the fossil record. [6] Most of the oldest known bat fossils were already very similar to modern microbats, such as Archaeopteropus (32 million years ago).