Kitti-Hog-Nosed+Bat

Kitti's Hog-Nosed Bat

Characteristics of the bat: The Kitti's Hog-Nosed Bat is the smallest of all bats. It has a wing span of just five inches and weighs only about one-fourteenth of an ounce. It's fur is reddish-brown or gray on its back with a paler abdomen. On its face it has a wrinkled, hog-nosed looking snout.

Habitat: The Kitti's Hog-Nosed Bat lives in Thailand and Burma in limestone caves.

Food: This bat usually eats insects. It will hunt and eat for short periods of time in the evening and again at dawn.

Other interesting facts: The Kitti's Hog-Nosed Bat is also known as the Bumblebee Bat because it is about the same size as a bee. The Kitti's Hog Nosed Bat is becoming endangered in Thailand because people are destroying their nesting places. These bats live together in colonies with about one hundred bats to a colony. The female bat will give birth to one baby a year. The Kitti's Hog-Nosed bat has no visible tail but it does have the membrane that helps it catch and eat its prey.

