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Image Credit: sketch of Pallid Bat in Bats  Pallid Bat Antrozous pallidus
The Pallid Bat usually flies at night. It has large, tan coloured
ears, grey wings and sharp claws on its feet. The only place in
the world this bat lives is the sagebrush area of the south Okanagan.
This bat spends the days of summer hanging from its perch. In
order to avoid the hot afternoon sun, the pallid bat hides deep
within a crack on a building or steep cliff.
During the night, this bat searches the sagebrush and grasslands
for food. The Pallid Bat has very good hearing for detecting prey.
It can hear a scorpion rustling through the grass. The pallid
bat also likes to hunt crickets, grasshoppers, moths and especially
beetles. Sometimes it will feast on a mouse or lizard.
The Pallid Bat is a flying mammal. Like all mammals it gives birth
to live young. The baby bats are born in the late spring and early
summer. They learn to fly by the time they are four or five weeks
old.
When the summer is over, the bats find a warm cave where they
hibernate through the winter.
These bats are endangered in the Thompson-Okanagan region because
the conditions they require for their survival are declining.
The grasslands are being used for houses, growing crops, or cattle
grazing. The bats' food is disappearing. The pallid bats need
food and space to survive .
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