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**Title:** Rescuing a Starving Bat
**Situation:** A person finds a weakened bat (later identified as a Red Evening Bat) in their home, likely due to insufficient fat reserves for hibernation.
**Key Events:**
1. **Initial Care**: The bat is warmed up, offered water, and eventually fed flour beetle larvae and zofobas larvae after researching suitable nutrition.
2. **Feeding Challenges**: Despite initial difficulties, the bat's appetite increases over 10 days, with its weight rising from 24g to 31.8g.
3. **Recovery**: The bat's health improves, with signs of accumulated subcutaneous fat and normal digestive processes.
4. **Hibernation Preparation**: The bat is prepared for winter hibernation in a temperature-controlled environment (+2 to +8°C), with a planned check-up in a month to monitor its condition.
**Conservation Context:** The rescue is highlighted as important due to declining bat populations, with many species (including this one) listed in national red books, and the significant ecological role bats play in controlling insect populations.
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**Biology and Behavior**
1. Bats typically hibernate during winter.
2. Bats hibernate because their insect-based food source also hibernates or becomes scarce.
3. Bats accumulate fat before hibernation to sustain themselves through winter.
4. A bat's sunken belly and depression at the withers (between the shoulder blades) indicate low subcutaneous fat.
5. Bats can fly from a flat surface; they don't necessarily need to jump down to take off.
6. Bats are nocturnal, meaning they are active at night.
7. Bats can eat a significant number of mosquitoes (about 400 per night).
8. Bats are the only mammals capable of true flight (excluding human-made aircraft).
**Specific Bat (Red Evening Bat) Facts**
9. The Red Evening Bat has reddish-brown fur.
10. The forearm length of a Red Evening Bat is usually between 48-58 mm.
11. A characteristic of the Red Evening Bat is the club-shaped form of the tragus at the base of the ear.
12. The normal weight for a Red Evening Bat is approximately 30 grams.
**Rescue and Care Facts**
13. The rescued bat initially weighed 24 grams.
14. The bat was fed flour beetle larvae and zophobas larvae as part of its recovery.
15. Bats should not be fed maggots, bloodworms, meat, bananas, or similar, as it can cause intestinal problems.
16. The bat's weight increased to 29.4 grams after 6 days of feeding.
17. After 10 days of feeding, the bat's weight reached 31.8 grams.
18. The bat's digestive process normalized, as indicated by its excrement.
19. Bats should hibernate at a temperature between +2 to +8 degrees Celsius to conserve subcutaneous fat.
**Other**
20. In Ukraine and some parts of Russia, many bat species are listed in the national red books.
21. Each bat typically reproduces one to two offspring per year, contributing to declining populations.
22. Bats play a crucial role in the ecosystem, particularly in controlling insect populations.