Kitti’s hog-nosed bat weighs as little as 1.5 g (1/20 oz) and is 3 cm (just over 1 in) long. It is also called the bumblebee bat. Ecologically, this bat occupies a pretty tiny niche. It only lives in limestone caves along rivers that run through coniferous or deciduous forests. And geographically, this bat is only found in a very small area of Thailand and Burma Probably using a lot of hover hunting, Kitti’s Hog-nosed Bats only forage for food for short windows of time, only about 30 min each evening and 20 min just before dawn, during which it eats small flies and spiders. Since these foraging trips can be easily interrupted by rains and low temperatures it is likely that climate change will have an effect on the foraging ability of this bat. Their restricted range, combined with the human disturbance, habitat destruction and small population size are all contributing to a downward population trend.
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