Spend a little time to enjoy a world class exhibition, which will lead to a new perception of these creatures of the night, often misunderstood. Exposure to bats is the culmination of 40 years of research conducted worldwide by Dr. Richard Laval, a longtime member of the community of Monteverde.

In this exhibition, we learn about the diversity and abundance of bats, where they sleep, eat (including things like fruit, nectar, insects, frogs, fish, birds, lizards and mice), also learn from the bat wings compared with of birds, the echo location, fantastic faces bats, vampire bats and baby. There are 40 bat species live in July a huge space, about 52 square meters, which is designed to resemble a tropical cloud forest at night. You can see bats, visit places of power, that have fruit and nectar, all within a habitat of bats behind a closed viewing area of glass.

In the habitat of bats, you’ll hear echolocation calls by ultrasound and social calls made by bats flying into the jungle, which captures a special microphone, basically this microphone makes a bat detector and transmits sound over loudspeakers in the area of observation.

There are a number of interesting exhibits that teach about the importance of conservation of bats to control insects, tropical forest regeneration and pollinating flowers. You will hear about specific conservation practices, like making bat houses and bat exclusion (move in a friendly manner outside a place where there are unwanted).

This tour is an excellent choice to include in your visit to Monteverde and only takes about an hour depending on how long you want to watch the bats in the Habitat.

It costs only $ 8.00 entrance for adults, $ 6.00 for students (including children), Costa Rican $ 4.00 for adults, $ 3.00 for students. Local residents can enter free. Groups of local school students, free. Come and support this local project and help spread the true history of the often misunderstood bat.