Gray Bats

The IRWP, in cooperation with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission, and the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, is doing its part to preserve the population of Gray bats at the Partnership’s Watershed Sanctuary in Cave Springs.

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Illinois River Watershed Partnership

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So how do bats find insects in the dark? They use sound waves and echoes, a process called Echolocation. It is pronounced like this: e-kō-lō-ˈkā-shən. They send out sound waves from their nose or mouth and when the sound waves hit an object an echo is created. http://upstreammatters.com/clean-water-raingers-getting-to-know-our-bats/

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Endangered species: Animals on the brink of extinction

Coming back. There used to be 2.5 million gray bats, but their numbers were down to 128,000 when the species made the list in 1976. As the Endangered Species Act came to protect more caves and forests, the number of gray bats went up to 1.5 million. Pictured is an Indiana bat.

Gray Bat: Gray bats are difficult to distinguish from little brown bats and Indiana bats. The key identifying feature of the gray bat is that its wing is attached to the ankle and not at the base of the toes. | Missouri Department of Conservation