This Peculiar Mammal Hibernates In A Self-Made Icy Bat Cave
Bats are one of a handful of mammals have sex to hole up in snow , with one species creating little icy bat caves for themselves when wintertime conditions make it tough to survive as a warm - blooded animal . When the behaviour was confirmed in 2018 , the Ussurian tube - nosed bat joinedpolar bearsas the only two mammals make out to hole up in snow . Ussurian tube - nosed bats ( Murina ussuriensis)are little vesperbatsthat librate about as much as two sugar cubes ....