Animal Description: The Bumblebee Bat’s skull is 11mm big and its body is averagely between 30 to 40 mm. It is known as the world’s smallest mammal. The bat has a reddish-brown upper parts and the under parts are always a paler version of the top. Some of the things that you might notice on the bumblebee bat is it’s relatively large ears and its pig-like snout. It will also be easy to know what it is by its incredibly small size.

 

Habitat/Range: It mostly lives in forests and caves. It survives of eating insects and spiders. It thrives in this ecosystem because there are millions of bugs around forests and caves. A large majority are found in Sai Yok National Park in Thailand. Size of population and conservation status: There are around 15.6 million currently at Sai Yok National Park and about 6.8 million left in the wild. Their population is currently growing due to the help of the Sai Yok National Park which is providing a perfect envirment for the bumblebee bat.

 

Diet and Feeding habits: The bumblebee bat eats a lot of those extra bugs that just pesture humans. There speediness and long wings to maneuver and snatch bugs. They mostly compete with other bug-eating bats and each other. Predators: Their numbers are mostly being depleted by forest fires near caves and human disturbance. That is the main reasons that they are being killed. It doesn’t really get eaten because they are small and fast so if anything were to try to eat them, it would be real tough. And there are so small they wouldn’t even be a snack for anything that can eat them.

 

Interesting Facts: The thing that stood out the most as I was reading about my animal is it’s amazing size. And it’s weird snout. I learned that it is also known as the Kitti’s hog-nosed bat. I had heard about the Kitti’s hog-nosed bat but I learned that it was the same thing as the bumblebee bat.

 

Author: CJ S

Published: 02/2007

 

Bibliography: www.nothingimportantto.us/blogextras/bumblebat.jpg Google http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumblebee_bat http://www.iusnredlist.org/search/details.php/5481/all http://www.answers.com/topic/bumblebee-bat Photo Credit: http://www.batcon.org/batsmag/images/v21n2ii.jpg