{"id":5418,"date":"2022-10-31T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/?p=5418"},"modified":"2024-02-28T08:14:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T14:14:42","slug":"popular-misconceptions-about-bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/popular-misconceptions-about-bats\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Misconceptions about Bats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Halloween is often associated with bats, which can lead to some pretty widespread misconceptions. For instance, have you ever heard someone say, \u201cHe\u2019s blind as a bat!\u201d If you have, you may want to keep reading\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Can you be blind as a bat?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite this popular phrase being recited across pop culture, bats aren\u2019t actually blind. Though they have small eyes, their vision is just fine! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s the longest living bat?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2006, a bat from Siberia broke records when it lived to be 41 years old. It\u2019s seldom we hear of a living bat who was around when the Beatles were at their peak. Usually, bats don\u2019t live longer than 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Baby bats are called pups\u2026 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did that grab your attention? Well, it\u2019s true! Maybe these aren\u2019t the pups that typically come to mind, but baby bats have that in common with newborn dogs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without bats, we wouldn\u2019t have chocolate…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seems like a stretch? It\u2019s not! Bats pollinate over 500 different plant species, including cacao, which is used to make chocolate. Does this make you want to quit what you\u2019re doing and become a full-time bat conservationist?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Halloween is often associated with bats, which can lead to some pretty widespread misconceptions. For instance, have you ever heard someone say, \u201cHe\u2019s blind as a bat!\u201d If you have, you may want to keep reading\u2026 Can you be blind as a bat? Despite this popular phrase being recited across pop culture, bats aren\u2019t actually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife-conservation","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5418"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5471,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions\/5471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}