Bats of Kerala

In the last few years both traditional research and innovative projects using advanced technology have resulted in a flood of new and fascinating information about bats their lifestyles and their habitats. Order Chiroptera is the second most diverse and abundant order of mammals with great physiological and ecological diversity. They play important ecological roles as prey and predator arthropod suppression seed dispersal pollination material and nutrient distribution and recycle. They have great advantage and disadvantage in economic terms.