REPORT ON ENDANGERED
AUSTRALIAN ANIMAL
BY: M. HASSAN
CLASS: 3K
GHOST BAT
The report includes:
 General
Classification
 Appearance
 Habitat
 Feeding Habits
 Movement
 Breeding
 Why this animal is endangered
 How We can save them
GENERAL CLASSIFICATION:
 Common
name: Ghost Bat also known
as Australian false vampire Bat.
 Binomial Name: Macroderma gigas.
 Class: Mammalia
 Order: Chiroptera
 Family: Megadermatidae .
Appearance:
They have extremely thin membrane of
wings that makes it like ghost at night.
Average size 11 cm to 14 cm
in length.
.
They
have
grey fur on
their backs
and pale
grey on
their
undersides
They have long, narrow wings,
but no tail.
Females are smaller then
males.
large long
ears that are
joined at the
base.
Habitat
 Ghost
bats live
in caves in
northern parts
of Australia,
Western
Australia,
Queensland
and the
Northern
Territory.
They
live in
groups,
called
colonies. A
colony may
be just a few
bats or about
100.
Habitat:
Habitat:
The
bats are nocturnal which
means they are active at
night.
Habitat:
 They
rest
during the
day in
caves,
mines or
large cracks
in rocks.
Habitat:
 They
hang upside down all day and
fly at night.
Feeding Habits:
Ghost
bat is
Australia’s
only
carnivorous
bat.
Feeding Habits:
 They
eat
large
insects,
reptiles, frog,
birds, small
mammals
and some
time other
bat species
Movement
 They
are very active and go for food at
night time .
 They can get distract by noise and the
are very sensitive to disturbance.
Breeding:
 The
females produce one young
each at a time.
 The young are cared for by their
mothers.
 When they are older, the young go
hunting with their mothers until they are
old enough to hunt for themselves.
Ghost bats are endangered:
 because
mining operations have
destroyed their habitat.
 Collapse of disused mines may also
be a threat.
 Human disturbance by visiting
roosts in caves and the loss of prey
Solution:
 Ghost
Bats are very sensitive to
disturbance
 stop the tourism near the Ghost Bat's
roosts
 government should pass a law banning
the mining of ghost bat caves and
enforced it so this way the Ghost Bat
might be able to get off the endangered
species list.
Solution:
 In
the past years mining has been
banned in some areas. There are laws
to protect the Ghost Bat but they are not
enforced.
Summary:
 Government
should put a ban on mining
 Sorry to say but , there has not been
much action to save the Ghost Bat.
 I hope we are able to save the ghost bat
so our descendants will be able to see
them not only as fossils in a museum.
References:
 Ghost
bats (2000). [Online], Available:
www.kidcyber.com.au
 www.ehp.qld.gov.au/wildlife/animalsaz/micro-bats/ghost_bat.html

www.environment.gov.au/node/14628