I put rubbish outside at 3:45am and two were flying around at the back of my house, for a moment I thought they were massive moths and nearly had a trouser accident. I’m very pleased to know they are simply feasting on the swarm of midges outside my bedroom window. They get very close when I was watching them, they are protecting me from the tiny mosquitoes trying to devour my precious blood. Bats are awesome, I love them. Thanks for the video.
I've once held a bat in my hands. It was around 1990, I was on a London nightbus going home, a little squiffy, on the top deck. The bus was full. As we finished crossing the Thames, a bat was scooped up by the open front window. It flew panicked up and down the top deck a few times while people pointed and oohed and squealed, then came to rest on the back of the left shoulder of a man sitting in the seat to the front of the stairs, and he either was playing it cool or didn't realise it was there. Then my stop was coming up so as I got to the stairs, I picked the bat off his shoulder (and then suddenly wondered if I was scared of bats, apparently not). It tried to escape so it was crawling through my hands and I was very worried about not hurting it but not letting it escape again. Anyway, I got off the bus and held my hand up and it sat there for a few seconds getting its head together, then it flew off into the night looking all the world like a fake bat from a Dracula movie. Everyone on the bus cheered. I've always hoped he or she got home okay.
I went on holiday for a few days and came back to a bat sleeping between the folds of my living room curtains. Bizarre really, as there were no windows open. Luckily I was only away for a few days. I switched the lights off and opened all of the living room windows. Flew out almost instantly. They are really beautiful.
Thank you for your video. I found what I wanted - the season for pipistrelle mating. I saw plenty of them last Autumn, in Walton Hall Park, Liverpool. I hope they will return later in the year.
I really enjoyed watching this- thanks for uploading it! We have bats in our loft. A bat woman came out to do a survey and said there were 2 different breeds in our loft one was a pipistrelle and I can't remember the other one unfortunately. We see them flying each evening at dusk. The reason I found this page was because I was searching for audio of bat sounds as there has been the strangest sound outside our window for the past few days. It's like a chirruping type of sound. I'm not sure if it's bats or what?!
Found a little pipistrelle on park and took it to RCPCA shelter, this was in the 90s. I prob wouldn't have just picked it up if I'd known about rabies then. It didn't bite tho it just grabbed my finger with its feet and hung off it. It was adorable, I think it might have been a young one. I see bats all over at dusk, it doesn't matter where I've lived. I live in a city but there's loads of green spaces. There's several big parks, canal and river and fields and two brooks go through the city in small v valleys separated off from roads and housing developments.
@@kawaiilotus In most parts of the world, you don't need to worry about catching rabies from bats. They have only been known to transmit the disease in parts of central Africa. Some bats travel long distances, but no British species goes that far.
Just discovered (& subscribed) to your channel. SUPERB videos & excellent information. You deserve far more views & subs ! I'm learning loads so thank you 👍
Ive been seeing them a lot recently. I moved to the outer city where there are less buildings and noise and i wonder if thats why ive been able to spot them. It was just flying around me and my dog when i was taking her out at about 11pm. I was wondering if it trying to threaten us to tell us to beat it but i guess it was just trying to eat. Thats one problem out here near a lot of trees and grass areas, moths and insects.
Me and my friend recently found a bat on the floor with a damaged wing. I was wondering if I would be allowed to nvm it says I can help them, thank you!!
Glad they specified that it's the only mammal capable of controlled flight, because I'm sure if I throw a child hard enough they'd achieve flight, just not controlled one
Legislation forbidding us from disturbing bats? Well, I'm quite disturbed by bats and the last thing I'd want is them squatting in my loft. In 2004 a bat bit a gentleman in Scotland, giving him rabies with the inevitable consequences. More numerous cases have occurred in the USA with the only known survivor of the disease having contracted it courtesy of a bat bite. Top tip - if you see a bat flying around during the day, get the hell out of Dodge - it means that there's something wrong with it. Don't go playing about with them unless you are an expert in their care, for your sake and theirs.
They're very small, make little noise and only come out when it gets dark so they usually go unnoticed. I'm 27 and never saw one before either until last August when I started walked around my neighbourhood at night and keeping my eyes peeled, and on many occassions I saw little fluttering brown things flying under the streetlights, occasionally a shadow of one on the pavement. I'm in Ireland actually, but I don't think it should be any different across the pond.
i'm in scotland and in my area you grow up seeing lots of little bats fly out at sunset in the summer!! i think they roost at my parent's house too, in the summer at least. twice when i was young, i woke up with a bat flying around my ceiling light while i was asleep lol. i was fine, but my parents never bothered to take me to a GP or anything 😭😂 and when i was there last summer, the baby bats kept trying to be brave enough to fly into my room so i had to close the window lol. i think they just hadn't got used to where to go, they live in a hole in a really thick stone wall in the summer thankfully.
Most echolocation calls are much too high for humans to hear; only a very few are detectable by our clumsy ears. That noise is what some of the calls sound like once run through an audio filter and the pitch lowered to a frequency we can detect.
@@alexisgrunden1556 you can hear them if they ever live outside in a hole in an old stone wall of your house in the summer 😭🤣 any time i heard this high pitch clicking i thought i was going crazy in the summer at my parent's house, but then if i looked outside my window there would be lots of little bats fluttering around exploring lol. but i thought because humans usually can't hear the smaller bats, that i must have lost my mind. but it happened every time. when i googled it, apparently humans can hear even the calls from the high pitch ones if they live close by in a wall of the house, because the call echos back around the walls or something. also, i just realised this comment is 4 years old sorry hahaha
You don't even know the "assumed" correct species. Get educated and stop spreading fake news/comments. Misguided fears of bats as disease carriers threaten a valuable and important species. COVID-19 disease is spread by human to human transmission. See the WHO website (www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019) The virus responsible for COVID-19 is presumed to have transferred to humans from an (as yet) unidentified animal host. Domesticated animals like cattle, sheep, dogs and goats shared the highest number of viruses with humans, with eight times more animal-borne viruses than wild mammal species. Bats were not recorded or reported to be at the Wuhan market when the outbreak started. Yet the supposed ‘bat origin’ of this so-called “bat-borne virus” was quickly propagated and accepted as fact amongst the general public. This led to further irresponsible speculations quickly surfacing about the outbreak being caused by the consumption of “bat soup”-fake news that has now been debunked. Exaggerated warnings of bat disease risks aren’t just misguided. They threaten the health of entire ecosystems and economies. Researchers in Indonesia conservatively estimate that bats save cacao growers more than $700 million annually in avoided insect damage. In Mexico, tequila and mescal production worth billions annually relies on bats that pollinate agaves. From Southeast Asia to the Mediterranean, bats provide key pest control for rice growers. In South Africa, macadamia growers benefit from bat control of stink bugs. the data currently available DO NOT support the hypothesis most frequently exposed in the media with regards the virus having originated in bats with pangolins as the intermediate hosts. Many more additional studies are required in order to establish the origins of this pandemic. In conclusion: 1. To this day, the source of the COVID-19 pandemic remains unknown. 2. To this day, it has not been established that bats have been the source of the pandemic. The finding of SARS-like coronaviruses in pangolins, suggests that this group of viruses is not exclusive to bats and that its spectrum of natural hosts may be broader than previously thought. The successful adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 to humans would support this possibility. 3. Whatever the origin, neither bats nor any other animals play any role whatsoever in the progress of the pandemic, which is based exclusively on transmission from person to person. 4. Regardless of the source of the pandemic, the illegal trade and sale of wild animal species without sanitary controls are clear causal factors. In order to prevent future pandemics, the international community should resolutely step up its fight against this scourge to health and biodiversity.
I put rubbish outside at 3:45am and two were flying around at the back of my house, for a moment I thought they were massive moths and nearly had a trouser accident. I’m very pleased to know they are simply feasting on the swarm of midges outside my bedroom window.
They get very close when I was watching them, they are protecting me from the tiny mosquitoes trying to devour my precious blood. Bats are awesome, I love them. Thanks for the video.
Once I had a massive moth in my bedroom and thought it was a bat. I also almost had a trouser accident.
I've once held a bat in my hands. It was around 1990, I was on a London nightbus going home, a little squiffy, on the top deck. The bus was full. As we finished crossing the Thames, a bat was scooped up by the open front window. It flew panicked up and down the top deck a few times while people pointed and oohed and squealed, then came to rest on the back of the left shoulder of a man sitting in the seat to the front of the stairs, and he either was playing it cool or didn't realise it was there. Then my stop was coming up so as I got to the stairs, I picked the bat off his shoulder (and then suddenly wondered if I was scared of bats, apparently not). It tried to escape so it was crawling through my hands and I was very worried about not hurting it but not letting it escape again.
Anyway, I got off the bus and held my hand up and it sat there for a few seconds getting its head together, then it flew off into the night looking all the world like a fake bat from a Dracula movie. Everyone on the bus cheered. I've always hoped he or she got home okay.
Well done man thats a cool story nowadays most people would scream or worried they get a disease lol
Wow that's an incredible story! Nice one for helping it get out safely 👍
@@helenchelmicka3028 One of those scarce moments in life I'm genuinely proud of :)
I went on holiday for a few days and came back to a bat sleeping between the folds of my living room curtains. Bizarre really, as there were no windows open. Luckily I was only away for a few days. I switched the lights off and opened all of the living room windows. Flew out almost instantly.
They are really beautiful.
its a shame such cute creatures are usually only mentioned to be carriers of rabies or other deadly viruses but not the positive sides of them
CORONAVIRUS
I agree
@TheMrEpicsounds playing too much assassins Creed made you a conspirationist lol, you need to stop
@TheMrEpicsounds coronaviruses have been known by scientists for a long time
At least they taste good
Got six bats flying around my house and garden, I love watching them fly around and turning on a sixpence and darting back and forth
We have a pair they get low sometimes and I end up duck and diving 😂
I am able to sit out in my garden at night and it is very common for bats to fly close. They’re very interesting, I love them
Rarely seen apart from the one that crashed into me last night while I was in my garden.
That’s horrifying, did it just fly away? Or like waddle around on the floor?
@@ameliaspurway3631 it flew off. It wasn't hurt.
They are so adorable !!!!
I saw many last night near mine and my sister ran away screaming 😂
Then your sister is on smart individual….
I see them every night outside my bedroom window. Cute things.
Yes, and very delicate. It isn't easy to be a flying mammal!
No, there was 13 in my house because they live In my roof space fucking scary
I been able to watch these every night in cambridge. Any park or along the river you will see a bit
Thank you for your video. I found what I wanted - the season for pipistrelle mating. I saw plenty of them last Autumn, in Walton Hall Park, Liverpool. I hope they will return later in the year.
I really enjoyed watching this- thanks for uploading it! We have bats in our loft. A bat woman came out to do a survey and said there were 2 different breeds in our loft one was a pipistrelle and I can't remember the other one unfortunately. We see them flying each evening at dusk. The reason I found this page was because I was searching for audio of bat sounds as there has been the strangest sound outside our window for the past few days. It's like a chirruping type of sound. I'm not sure if it's bats or what?!
Found a little pipistrelle on park and took it to RCPCA shelter, this was in the 90s. I prob wouldn't have just picked it up if I'd known about rabies then. It didn't bite tho it just grabbed my finger with its feet and hung off it. It was adorable, I think it might have been a young one. I see bats all over at dusk, it doesn't matter where I've lived. I live in a city but there's loads of green spaces. There's several big parks, canal and river and fields and two brooks go through the city in small v valleys separated off from roads and housing developments.
Do you live in the UK? If so we don't have rabies here.
@@kawaiilotus In most parts of the world, you don't need to worry about catching rabies from bats. They have only been known to transmit the disease in parts of central Africa. Some bats travel long distances, but no British species goes that far.
I have many bats living in the houses near me. I began seeing them in Summer last year.
Just discovered (& subscribed) to your channel. SUPERB videos & excellent information. You deserve far more views & subs ! I'm learning loads so thank you 👍
Thank you so much
Aww they so fluffy
Seen a few bats flym about in the area whare I reside! I colliquilly call em pip squeak bats!
*BATS IN THE UK* *(breeding species only)*
*Species* | *Average* *Strongest* *Echolocation* *Frequency* *(kHz)*
Noctules (Nyclatus):
Noctule | 20-25
Leisler's | 25
House bats (Eptesicus):
Serotine | 27
Barbastelles (Barbastella):
Barbastelle | 32
Pipstrelles (Pipistrellus):
Nathusius pipistelle | 39
Common pipistrelle | 45
Soprano pipistrelle | 55
Mouse-eared bats (Myotis):
Alcathoe | 43-46
Whiskered | 45
Brant's | 45
Daubenton's | 45
Natterer's | 50
Bechstein's | 50
Long-eared bats (Plecotus):
Brown long-eared | 45-50
Grey long-eared | 45-50
Horseshoe bats (Rhinopholus):
Greater Horseshoe | 80
Lesser Horseshoe | 108
Thanks for adding this information
Ive been seeing them a lot recently. I moved to the outer city where there are less buildings and noise and i wonder if thats why ive been able to spot them. It was just flying around me and my dog when i was taking her out at about 11pm. I was wondering if it trying to threaten us to tell us to beat it but i guess it was just trying to eat. Thats one problem out here near a lot of trees and grass areas, moths and insects.
Surprisingly cute
Me and my friend recently found a bat on the floor with a damaged wing. I was wondering if I would be allowed to nvm it says I can help them, thank you!!
Aleris 01 Try to leave them or wear gloves and protection whilst handling them, as they can carry a lot of deadly viruses
Glad they specified that it's the only mammal capable of controlled flight, because I'm sure if I throw a child hard enough they'd achieve flight, just not controlled one
What is that (bat/bird) at the beginning? Making the oooooh sound? I hear it a lot near my house (Kent) and can’t work out what it is!
I have a bat in my loft
Fascinating
There is a bat in my living room right now, I have no idea where it has gone now
Hope you managed to get it out okay
@@Errrmmm I did, and I got 5 more bats in my house that week aswell
Legislation forbidding us from disturbing bats? Well, I'm quite disturbed by bats and the last thing I'd want is them squatting in my loft. In 2004 a bat bit a gentleman in Scotland, giving him rabies with the inevitable consequences. More numerous cases have occurred in the USA with the only known survivor of the disease having contracted it courtesy of a bat bite. Top tip - if you see a bat flying around during the day, get the hell out of Dodge - it means that there's something wrong with it. Don't go playing about with them unless you are an expert in their care, for your sake and theirs.
I caught one by accident whilst fishing once years ago
Do you have any information about Slovenia
in my 21 years on this earth, I have never seen a bat in England!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They're very small, make little noise and only come out when it gets dark so they usually go unnoticed. I'm 27 and never saw one before either until last August when I started walked around my neighbourhood at night and keeping my eyes peeled, and on many occassions I saw little fluttering brown things flying under the streetlights, occasionally a shadow of one on the pavement. I'm in Ireland actually, but I don't think it should be any different across the pond.
i'm in scotland and in my area you grow up seeing lots of little bats fly out at sunset in the summer!! i think they roost at my parent's house too, in the summer at least. twice when i was young, i woke up with a bat flying around my ceiling light while i was asleep lol. i was fine, but my parents never bothered to take me to a GP or anything 😭😂 and when i was there last summer, the baby bats kept trying to be brave enough to fly into my room so i had to close the window lol. i think they just hadn't got used to where to go, they live in a hole in a really thick stone wall in the summer thankfully.
Nice !
♡
You used to find them in the woods by the old powerplant by my estate
We get bats in our back garden during summer. I dont know what species they are, though they are dark and not very big though not tiny either.
I have heard soprano pipistrelle
Distances of sound
Rarely seen my arse, one hit me the other day 😂
NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA BATMAN!!!
That is very peculiar noises at the start of the video 😕☹️
Most echolocation calls are much too high for humans to hear; only a very few are detectable by our clumsy ears. That noise is what some of the calls sound like once run through an audio filter and the pitch lowered to a frequency we can detect.
@@alexisgrunden1556 you can hear them if they ever live outside in a hole in an old stone wall of your house in the summer 😭🤣 any time i heard this high pitch clicking i thought i was going crazy in the summer at my parent's house, but then if i looked outside my window there would be lots of little bats fluttering around exploring lol. but i thought because humans usually can't hear the smaller bats, that i must have lost my mind. but it happened every time. when i googled it, apparently humans can hear even the calls from the high pitch ones if they live close by in a wall of the house, because the call echos back around the walls or something.
also, i just realised this comment is 4 years old sorry hahaha
Covid
You don't even know the "assumed" correct species.
Get educated and stop spreading fake news/comments.
Misguided fears of bats as disease carriers threaten a valuable and important species.
COVID-19 disease is spread by human to human transmission. See the WHO website
(www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019)
The virus responsible for COVID-19 is presumed to have transferred to humans from an (as yet) unidentified animal host.
Domesticated animals like cattle, sheep, dogs and goats shared the highest number of viruses with humans, with eight times more animal-borne viruses than wild mammal species.
Bats were not recorded or reported to be at the Wuhan market when the outbreak started. Yet the supposed ‘bat origin’ of this so-called “bat-borne virus” was quickly propagated and accepted as fact amongst the general public.
This led to further irresponsible speculations quickly surfacing about the outbreak being caused by the consumption of “bat soup”-fake news that has now been debunked.
Exaggerated warnings of bat disease risks aren’t just misguided. They threaten the health of entire ecosystems and economies. Researchers in Indonesia conservatively estimate that bats save cacao growers more than $700 million annually in avoided insect damage. In Mexico, tequila and mescal production worth billions annually relies on bats that pollinate agaves. From Southeast Asia to the Mediterranean, bats provide key pest control for rice growers. In South Africa, macadamia growers benefit from bat control of stink bugs.
the data currently available DO NOT support the hypothesis most frequently exposed in the media with regards the virus having originated in bats with pangolins as the intermediate hosts. Many more additional studies are required in order to establish the origins of this pandemic.
In conclusion:
1. To this day, the source of the COVID-19 pandemic remains unknown.
2. To this day, it has not been established that bats have been the source of the pandemic. The finding of SARS-like coronaviruses in pangolins, suggests that this group of viruses is not exclusive to bats and that its spectrum of natural hosts may be broader than previously thought. The successful adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 to humans would support this possibility.
3. Whatever the origin, neither bats nor any other animals play any role whatsoever in the progress of the pandemic, which is based exclusively on transmission from person to person.
4. Regardless of the source of the pandemic, the illegal trade and sale of wild animal species without sanitary controls are clear causal factors. In order to prevent future pandemics, the international community should resolutely step up its fight against this scourge to health and biodiversity.
@@batsrule lol get a grip
@@bendassut6533 if you get an education then they wouldnt have to tell you their self
@@batsrule Well said.