Bats, known as "night elves", are generally active at night and rest during the day, while the body color of most species of bats is biased towards gray and black. But the types of bats are very diverse, the world knows a total of 16 families and 185 genera and 962 species of bats, the color is also diverse, of which there is a pure white bat in Central America, which is one of the most beautiful bats - Honduran white bat.
Honduran white bat is very small, 37-47 mm long, weighs about 5 grams, its ears, legs and wings, face, nose parts are all bright orange, the body is covered with plush shiny white hair, and most often found in Honduras, so called Honduran white bat, in fact, Central America Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama are distributed.
Among the bat species, bats have a wide range of feeding habits, including bats that feed on fruits or nectar, bats that prey on insects, and vampire bats that suck the blood of animals. Honduran white bat in the bat species should be one of the highest value bats, white bats are also vegetarian bat species, the world's smallest vegetable-eating bat, white bat food plant nectar, tree fruits and a variety of vegetables and so on.
The habitat of white bats and other bats is very different, many bat species live in caves, or hang on large trees to rest, etc., while white bats hide under banana leaves or banana leaves, on the one hand, white bats are very small, and the shape of banana leaves is conducive to them to rest in rows and rows, or to create rest places, resting in the central part of the leaves of the banana or banana tree that they have bitten.
Soft and cute white bats should be able to change people's impression of bats to a certain extent, so that some people directly raise it as a pet, but at the same time, due to the destruction of the habitat of white bats, the survival of white bat populations has been greatly challenged and has been listed as a "near-threatened" species.
In fact, whether it is a white bat, or a black gray bat, bats have a special role in maintaining the natural ecological balance, insectivorous bats can eliminate a large number of mosquitoes and other pests, plant-eating bats can be used as one of the pollinators of fruit or pollen, biological diversity is very important in the natural ecology, the world's 962 kinds of bats also have their special value in the natural ecology!
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