Big Eared Bat

From the USFWS National Wildlife Refuge System:

If you lined up all the mammals in the world, every fourth animal would be a bat. There are 1,200 bat species. And this week is the first –ever National Bat Week http://www.savebats.org/bat-week/ The world’s smallest bat (bumblebee bat of Thailand) weighs less than a penny; the largest, in Malaysia, has a wingspan of 6 feet. Indiana bats are found across most of the Eastern U.S. http://1.usa.gov/1D7CWjA many of them affected by white nose bat syndrome https://www.whitenosesyndrome.org/ 

The Townsend’s big eared bat pictured here is found in the far western United States. http://1.usa.gov/1nCEBfhPhoto by Ann Froschauer