Why Do Bats Hiding When The rain?

Several species of bats still able to fly in conditions of light drizzle. But when the heavy rains, they immediately seek shelter. New research published in the journal Biology Letters reveals the reason why bats do that.

Apparently, the bat should try harder to fly when the feathers and their wings are wet.

In a series of studies conducted in Costa Rica, researchers studied the behavior of Sowell bats (Carollia sowelli) short-tailed species of the family Phyllostomidae bats are commonly found around Mexico, Central America, to Panama as they fly in captivity are spacious.

Quoted from Science Now, researchers occasionally wet bats with tap water, sometimes to let the bats fly wet under heavy rain.

From the study it was revealed that bats use energy more than twice as large as they fly in wet conditions compared to when they fly in dry conditions.

Flying in rainy conditions did not differ. These eliminate the suspicion of a mechanical problem caused by raindrops falling on their wings or weight of water droplets on them.

According to researchers, wet bat, just like other mammals being wet, cold. For that, they need to work harder to keep their bodies warm.

In addition, the amount of water and moisten the wet feathers of their wings, wet conditions is also of course make the bats become aerodynamic to fly.

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