The Bat Book (Conservation for Kids)

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This book covers the key aspects of bat biology, including evolution, flight, echolocation, hibernation, reproduction, feeding and roosting ecology, social behaviour, migration, population and community ecology, biogeography, and conservation. Starring an adorably grumpy bat and animal friends, I Am Bat is perfect for fans of Superbat and Oi Frog!

These recordings can relate to ‘difficult to ID’ bat species, but also, often, sounds not related to bats. Kirkus Reviews states that "It’s an unusual debut since the very first page finds Harry clearing passport control in Sydney, half a world away from his native Oslo. This fabulous all-you-need-to-know book about bats – what they eat, where they live, how they help plants to grow, how they disperse seeds, pollinate farms and keep a variety of ecosystems healthy – is perfectly pitched for 7-9 year olds. Did you know that there are two main groupings of bats, or that the bat is the only mammal that can fly? As well as gobbling up pests, and spreading seeds through the forests, they also pollinate over 500 different species of plants throughout the world.Not to spoil things, but Harry gets into a barfight and isn’t reamed out by his superiors for doing so, which felt a bit unrealistic. He uses his experiences of bat watching around the world to describe their complex life cycles, explaining how you can watch and study bats and help conserve these often threatened mammals. It isn’t until one of Harry’s Australian police force colleagues passes away that his alcoholism comes to the fore, making him both brilliant in terms of solving the investigation and destructive in terms of the laws he’ll break to see justice done.

These surveys often generate vast amounts of audio recordings, resulting in the heavy workload associated with completing the sound analysis and reporting process. He's an international number one bestseller and his books are published in 50 languages, selling over 33 million copies around the world. The book also shows how bats are incredibly important to the environment: they gobble up pests, spread seeds through the forests, and pollinate over 500 different species of plants including some of our favourite fruits like mangoes and bananas. From the way they fly, to how they communicate, and why they sleep upside-down, each of the world's 1,300 types of bat is unique and utterly fascinating.Children will be fascinated by the beautiful illustrations and learn plenty of bat facts on every page. The second book, Cockroaches, set in Thailand, has been translated to English, fifteen years after being originally published in Norwegian, and was published in the UK in November 2013. He has a constant appetite for self-development, as well as seeking to develop those around him, and to this end he has designed and delivered in excess of 200 training events covering a wide range of business and ecology-related subjects.