 Bats
of Southern Indiana
Click on each of
these eleven bats of Southern Indiana to read
about them.
Drawing made by Cannelton Elementary Media Club
Southern Indiana has twelve known species of
bats. They are
the Eastern Red bat, Rafinesque's Big-eared bat,
the Gray bat,
the Silver-haired bat, the Eastern pipistrelle,
the Hoary, the Evening bat,
the Big brown, the Little brown, the Eastern
Small-footed bat,
the Southeastern bat, and the Indiana bat.
Eleven of these bats are pictured above. (The
Southeastern Bat
is not
pictured above, but click on its name here to
read our report on it.)
Wyandotte Caves are the winter hibernation home
of four
of these bats that is known at the present time.
The bat found the most in Wyandotte Caves is the
Indiana bat.
We researched these eleven species of bats.
Click on each bat above
to read about it.
***BONUS!***
You can listen to the four bats of Wyandotte
Caves!
The four bats you can listen to are the Big
Brown,
Little Brown, Eastern Pipistrelle, and the
Indiana Bat!
The sound pages are linked from the report pages.
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References/Resources
All
other photos and drawing on this page:
Cannelton Elementary Media Club
Information about bats of Indiana from
Bats of the United
States, by Michael
Harvey, J. Altenbach, and Troy L. Best,
copyright 1999
by the Arkansas Game & Fish
Commission and
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Other
references are listed for each
individual bat on their report pages.
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