Bats
This mammal can be found in mines, tunnels and caves. There are approximately 1000 in Kartchner Caverns during the summer months.
What is a Common Cave Bat?
Bats, raccoons, lizards and scorpions.
What animals prey on crickets?
Most numerous animal found in Kartchner Caverns.
What are mites?
The fossils of this large plant-eating mammal were found in the cavern.
What is the Shasta Ground Sloth?
Bats are never far from this substance.
What is water?
Caves, cellars, under logs, or other dark places.
Where can crickets be found?
An animal that lives on or in another animal.
What is a parasite?
The length of the ground sloth found in the cave.
What is 3 meters.
May through September.
When are the bats in Kartchner Caverns?
During the night.
When do cave crickets feed?
Almost all cave mites are dependent on this for survival.
What is bat guano?
Woody vegetation in forested upland areas or grassy savannas.
What did the Shasta Ground Sloth eat?
Moths, flying ants, and mosquitoes.
What do bats eat?
This arthropod feeds upon plant material found outside the cave.
What is a camel cricket?
Sancassania is found in fresh guano, with 50 to 500 individuals per cubic inch.
What is the most common mite?
The age of the sloth fossil found in the cave.
What is 86,000 years old?
This is a rich food source for other animals that occupy the cave.
What is bat guano?
Cave crickets fool this creature by digging a false hole for eggs.
What are blind beetles?
The Geolaelaps.
The era of time at the end of which most large herbivores and carnivores became extinct.
What was the Pleistocene Age?