A sign with information about the Common noctule bat
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LARGE NOCULT SAIL Nyctalus noctula
SIZE/WEIGHT: 8 cm, wingspan 40 cm; Weight about 40g
APPEARANCE/TRAITS: Fur short, shiny rusty brown, bare skin areas on the face and ears, mushroom-shaped ear covers, membranes black-brown.
SPECIAL FEATURES: The fastest flyer among the native bats - they can reach speeds of up to 60 km/h.
FOOD: Eat up to a kilo of insects such as moths, flies, mosquitoes and beetles in a year.
REPRODUCTION: The animals mate between August and November. From June the females give birth to one or two young and suckle them,
DISTRIBUTION/HABITAT: In Europe (without northern Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland) as well as in North Africa and in Asia to Japan. In Austria mostly migrants or winter guests
ENDANGER: The species is not endangered.
FOUND IN VIENNA:
1010 St. Peters Square U1 U3
1080 Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz (Town Hall) U2
1140 Lainzer Tiergarten U4
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[Image: The fastest fur ball in Vienna: up to 60 km/h]
WHY DO BATS NEED CANINES? Aside from fruit bats, bats are the only group of mammals that are fully capable of flight. The flying mammals have always frightened humans with their unusual behavior - sleeping by day, hunting by night, hanging upside down from the ceiling, and their ability to see in pitch darkness via ultrasound. Many of the animals were therefore boiled down into magic potions, nailed to doors as protection against black magic or hunted as messengers of the devil.
THE GOOD NEWS: THERE ARE NO VAMPIRES IN VIENNA".
There are only three species of bats in the world that feed on blood. These species are found exclusively in Central and South America. The native bat species are only suitable as a horror story for insects: With their pronounced canine teeth, they crack open the chitin shells of their small prey.
Bats need quiet, weather-protected roosts, summer quarters where the young are born and frost-proof winter quarters.
Large noctule bats live in small groups and inhabit old tree cavities. Most live in the protected areas of the green districts, e.g. B. in the Lainzer Tiergarten. Sometimes they also use buildings and nesting boxes as roosts. For mating and hibernation even in the middle of the city-z. B. at the Peterskirche on the Graben or in the Felderstraße at the Vienna City Hall. There you can often watch the courtship flights of bats on winter evenings.
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