Webinar gives insight about the state’s bat population
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Love ‘em or hate ‘em, bats are a part of almost every ecosystem across the world.
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, bats are a part of almost every ecosystem across the world. Christopher Fill, coordinator for the North American Bat Monitoring Program in Nebraska, spoke on how residents can understand and support the state’s bat population.
He began by explaining just what bats are, voicing that they are in the order of Chiroptera, meaning hand-wing.
A UNL Extension bat fact-sheet noted that bats are the only mammal capable of true flight by using their elongated finger bones covered with a thin layer of skin.
“Their bone structure is very similar to ours,” he described. “The wing is just their shoulder, elbow and wrist. They have five fingers and their wing is just skin webbing between all their fingers.”
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