Masters of the Night: The True Story of Bats
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exhibition overview
Are bats really blind, blood-sucking, squeaky creatures that get tangled in your hair?
Masters of the Night: The True Story of Bats brings the mystery surrounding bats out of the dark. This hands-on exhibition explores the real world of these wonderful and ecologically important creatures and turns commonplace myths upside-down. Through a mixture of photos, models and nine interactives, Masters of the Night dispels popular misconceptions and gives visitors an appreciation of the true wonders of the bat world.
Interactive displays include:
- Bats Around the World
- Bat Prints
- I'm All Ears
- Echo, Echo
- Feast & Flight
- The Importance of Being Bats
- One Night's Meal
- Where Bats Live
- Bat Video
Did you know....that many fruit-bearing trees in the constantly threatened rainforest depend on bats? In order to reproduce, these trees bear fruit that need seed dispersal and are ingested, often by bats. The bats, in turn spread waste material containing seeds that as dispersed, regenerate the rainforest.
Downloadable Materials
- Teacher Materials
How A Bat Compares to Me (Grades 3 - 5)
Test Your Bat IQ (Grades 3 - 5)
Bat Attitudes (Grades K - 2)
What's For Dinner (Grades K - 3)
All teacher materials “Copyright Bat Conservation International, www.batcon.org”
year of the bat
Did you know that 2011-2012 is "Year of the Bat?" The Year of the Bat
is a two yearlong global species awareness initiative undertaken by The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) and The Agreement on the Conservation of Populations of European Bats (EUROBATS). Learn more at YearoftheBat.org.
Supported by Dennis and Sherrill Bambauer, Sally Wells and donors to Turtle Bay's Auction - Jeans, Jewels & Jazz.
