Many anglers like night fishing, sometimes there is no time to fish during the day, sometimes feel that night fishing is better, choose to fish at night, but night fishing often encounter bats. They will hover overhead and hunt at the lights, but they are harmless and do not actively attack people.
At night, due to poor lighting, lighting aids are needed to watch the floating, or to take bait. But the lighting setting can attract a large number of insects.
Especially in the high temperature season, there are more insects, insects have phototropism, they move near the lights, and the arrival of insects will attract bats to prey on insects.
Especially in some mountain reservoirs, or fishing in the countryside, bats will always hover overhead, flying overhead to catch flying insects under the lights.
Some anglers will drive them away from the rod and even knock them, it is best not to do so, try not to touch them, to prevent unnecessary trouble.
Bats are the only beasts that can fly, nocturnal, although they have no wings, but their flying skills are similar to those of birds. Nocturnal, likes to hunt at night.
Bats have a wide range of feeding habits, some species love to eat fruits; some like to eat fish, frogs, insects, suck animal blood, and most bats live by preying on insects.
Bats have the habit of hibernating, overwintering in hidden places such as tree caves, rock wall crevices, and eaves, breathing and heartbeating only a few times a minute when hibernating, and the body temperature is the same as the ambient temperature.
Some bats have migratory habits, migrating to warmer areas, sometimes requiring flights of thousands of kilometers. Non-migratory bats generally have a habit of hibernating.
Bat cells are very heat-tolerant and can still maintain a fairly stable state at a body temperature of 40 ° C, such a high temperature will allow the virus to replicate, but this means that other animals may not be able to produce resistance after being infected with the virus in bats.
In 1994, an outbreak broke out at a racecourse in the Australian town of Hendra, killing 14 racehorses and 1 person. The virus that caused the outbreak is known as Hendra virus and is suspected to have come from bats. In the course of the investigation, the researchers found that antibodies to Hendra virus were present in four species of fox bats, including the central fox bat, the gray-headed fox bat, the little red fox bat, and the spectacled fox bat. Although no virus has been found to spread directly from fox bats to horses. But laboratory studies have suggested that it is possible that horses eat grass or eat leftover fruit from fox bats, and that people are infected by contact with horses. Nipah virus, a "close relative" of Hendra virus, is one of the most dangerous viruses in the world and is classified as a biosafety class 4 pathogen. Nipah virus first broke out in Malaysia and Singapore between 1998 and 1999, infecting herds and farmers, infecting 276 people, including 105 deaths. Because of nipah's association with Hendra, bats became the first suspected targets. There are many species of bats in Malaysia, with 13 species of fruit-eating bats and more than 60 species of carnivorous bats, and studies have confirmed that 4 species of fruit-eating bats and 1 species of carnivorous bats have antibodies to Nipah virus in their bodies. In 2004, there was also an outbreak in Nipa in central Bangladesh, with a case fatality rate of 75% of infected people, and the "killer" was also a bat.
Bats rarely develop cancer and live very long, with the longest-lived baby brown bat surviving for more than 35 years, and the vast majority of species also live for more than 10 years, compared to rodents of the same size with only about 2 years of lifespan.
At night, we often see bats flying in the night sky, or hunting under street lights, don't disturb them, we don't invade each other.