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Acoustics of the songs of Mexican free-tailed bats [224] Bats are among the most vocal of mammals and produce calls to attract mates, find roost partners and defend resources. These calls are typically low-frequency and can travel long distances. [48] [225] Mexican free-tailed bats are one of the few species to "sing" like birds. Males sing to ...
Mexican free-tailed bats are primarily insectivores. They hunt their prey using echolocation. The bats eat moths, beetles, dragonflies, flies, true bugs, wasps, and ants. They usually catch flying prey in flight. [15] Large numbers of Mexican free-tailed bats fly hundreds of meters above the ground in Texas to feed on migrating insects. [16]
Onychonycteris finneyi was the strongest evidence so far in the debate on whether bats developed echolocation before or after they evolved the ability to fly. O. finneyi had well-developed wings, and could clearly fly, but lacked the enlarged cochlea of all extant echolocating bats, closely resembling the old world fruit bats which do not echolocate. [1]
Like all bats in the United States, [54] big brown bats can be affected by rabies. The incubation period for rabies in this species can exceed four weeks, [55] though the mean incubation period is 24 days. [54] Rabid big brown bats will bite each other, which is the primary method of transmission from individual to individual.
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The Hawaiian hoary bat (Lasiurus semotus), [4] [5] also known as ʻōpeʻapeʻa, is a species of bat endemic to the islands of Hawaiʻi. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The Hawaiian hoary bat occupies the major Hawaiian islands, making it the only extant and native terrestrial mammal in the islands.