🦇 With over 100 bats in Jersey Zoo’s Island Bat Roost, how do we tell them apart? 🦇 👂Meet Echo, a Livingstone’s fruit bat who can be identified by the shape of her ears. This is just one way our keepers can recognise individual bats. 🌱 Our bats are microchipped the same way cats and dogs are. Keepers use a specially built microchip reader, which can extend to scan bats on the ceiling without disturbing them. 🐾 Keepers also use an ID chart, which tells them each bat’s weight, ear shape, roos

To wrap up #BatWeek2020, and bring you some #Halloween spookiness, we’re showing you our vampire bats like you’ve never seen before! It might sound wild, but it costs $17,000 per year to feed our colony of 34 sanguivores. All the food we feed to our animals at the Zoo is of the highest quality possible, including the bovine blood we feed our 🧛🦇. Every dollar raised through our ZOOtrition campaign through the end of the year will go directly towards providing our animals with the proper diets t

Bats in slow-mo are mesmerising... 🦇😮 | Chester Zoo