AY Honor Bats - Advanced Requirements

Bats - Advanced

Skill Level

2

Year

2004

Version

25.12.2024

Approval authority

General Conference

1. Earn the Bats honor.

2. What are caves, attics, bridges, or tunnels where bats hibernate called?

3. Give three (3) examples of colonizing bats.

4. Give three (3) examples of solitary roosting bats.

5. What is meant by delayed implantation?

6. How long is the gestation period for bats?

7. What is bat guano and why was it important during the War of 1812 and the Civil War?

8. What disease can be contracted from large quantities of guano?

9. What is the life-span of a bat?

10. Do all bats have rabies?

11. How good is the vision of microbats and megabats?

12. What North American bat is pictured on the honor?