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Otago Museum – your museum, in your home Visit http://www.otagomuseum.nz/athome for kids activities, science experiments, collection stories, digital puzzles and more. Hello! My name is Emily and I’m the Education Officer at Otago Museum. Here is a cute educational activity that you can do at home with the whānau to learn more about these amazing, but often misunderstood, creatures – bats! Bats are mammals like us, and there are thought to be more than 1300 species of them in the world. Some bats drink blood, but not many! In fact, of these hundreds of species, only three feed on blood, most eat insects, and many eat fruit, pollen, and nectar. They are the only mammals that can fly (rather than just glide like sugar gliders). In New Zealand, there are two species of pekapeka (bat) that can be found in various parts of the country: the long-tailed bat and the lesser short-tailed bat. These two species are the only native terrestrial mammals in New Zealand. While the long-tailed bat is an aerial predator, hunting flying insects on the wing, the lesser short-tailed bat spends part of its time crawling around on the forest floor foraging for bugs, grubs, and fruit. Unfortunately, humans have had a big impact on our native bat populations. Through habitat destruction, the introduction of mammals like rats, stoats, and cats, and human disturbance, our bats have become endangered. This has also led to the probable extinction of our third species of bat, the greater short-tailed bat. Let’s do all we can to protect these fascinating little mammals!