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ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION • |
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Educational
Material •
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have designed and produced different educative
packages about the feeding habits of bats. Each
Packaged contains a story with a special bat
mascot wich gives information about the natural
history of these bats. It also contains aworkbook
for Teachers so they integrate into the currícula
examples, games and activities about bats, and
a special workbook for children, with the Basic
information abot bats, and different games and
activities to perform at school, home. And finally
we request for participation on the long term
through a continuity program.
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Marcelo,
the bat •
Program about insect feeding
and migratory bats, which
pet is “Marcelo,
the bat”, Marcelo
represents the especies
Tadarida brasiliensis
which can eat as much
as 3,000 insects in one
night, providing pest
control services for agriculture.
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Lucia,
the pollinating bat •
Lucia is a pollinating
bat and feeds on the pollen
and nectar of flowers,
dispersing pollen from
flowers aiding pollination.
Bats like Lucia pollinote
over 500 different plant
species, including some
of very valuable like
the agave from which tequila
is extracted (Agave
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Seeds
from Barbarita, the bat
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Barbarita is a fruit-eating
bat that feeds on fruits
such as guava, mango, zapote,
figs, etc. Bats like barbara
helps dispersing seeds therefore
promoting the renovation
of deforested tropical forests,
they can disperse around
60,000 seeds such as the
fruit of the fig in one
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Don
Sabino, the city bat
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Don Sabino is an old insect-feeding
bat that ives in the city,
he protects people from
mosquitoes given that its
his favourite food. HE can
live in tall buildings,
between the cracks of buildings,
under brigdes, etc.
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Valentin,
a Special bat •
Valentin is a bat
that feeds of small
ammounts of blood
from cattle and wild
mammals, but only
those old or sick.
Out of the 1000 species
of bats Worldwide,
only three species
are feed on blood.
This program includes
information so children
recognize the main
characteristics of
blood-feeding bats,
and so they can perform
control measures in
case of problems with
hematophagous bats
in their communities.
This program is delivered
to children of 12
years or older. |
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An
unexpected treasure
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This is a broad and
general program that
contains all the feeding
habits of bats, roosts,
predators, benefits,
and their tretas.
We use this program
as a reinforcement
of the previously
given information,
or for shorter sessions.
It contains a board
and a memo game.
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