{"id":3007,"date":"2010-10-02T09:38:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T13:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2016-11-03T09:46:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:46:09","slug":"deafening-bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/deafening-bats\/","title":{"rendered":"Deafening Bats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bats are small, but mighty \u2013 mighty loud that is. These flying mammals are louder than any known animal in air, emitting sounds exceeding <strong>140 dB<\/strong>. Compare that to a loud rock concert at <strong>115-120 dB<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11307\" title=\"bat sleeping\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/close_up_bat_sleeping.jpeg\" alt=\"bat sleeping\" width=\"576\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/close_up_bat_sleeping.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/close_up_bat_sleeping-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/close_up_bat_sleeping-631x420.jpeg 631w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2008\/04\/080429204244.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2008\/04\/080429204244.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2890 align=\" style=\"margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"2010_biodiversity_logo_convention\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention.png\" alt=\"biodiversity logo convention 2010\" width=\"580\" height=\"95\" align=\"aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention.png 920w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention-300x48.png 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention-768x125.png 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention-696x113.png 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2010 is the Year of Biodiversity and <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Earth Rangers<\/span><\/strong><strong> has teamed up with <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The United Nations Convention<\/span><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">on Biological Diversity<\/span><\/strong><strong> to bring you a daily dose of <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=1223\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">biodiversity basics<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Rangers<\/a> is a non-profit organization that works to inspire and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/resources.html\">educate<\/a> children about the environment. At EarthRangers.com kids can play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/games\/\">games<\/a>, discover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/category\/omg-facts\/\">amazing facts<\/a>, meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/animals\/\">animal ambassadors<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringbackthewild.com\/\">fundraise<\/a> to protect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/about.html\" target=\"_self\">biodiversity<\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bats may be small, but what they lack in size, they make up for in sound. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,409,931],"tags":[177,104,114],"class_list":{"0":"post-3007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-omg_animals","8":"category-omg-facts","9":"category-all","10":"tag-bats","11":"tag-united-nations","12":"tag-volume"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}