BATS

As a deadly fungal disease sweeps across North America, wiping out millions of bats, scientists are pioneering a bold new strategy to protect these special creatures. Led by epidemiologist Tonie Rocke, the team is conducting field trials of an innovative vaccine at a key site ...

Transylvania is a wonderland for bats, home to 26 kinds. Romania has more than 12,000 caves, which are critical sanctuaries for Transylvania’s bats.

This piece comes to us from Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in honor of Bat Week. How many bridges have you driven over without giving a single thought to what is going on underneath?  You might be surprised by what is happening down there. The thousands ...

  Bats: mammals of the order Chiroptera. Kingdom: | Animalia Class: | Mammalia Order: | Chiroptera Bats comprise the order Chiroptera, stemming from Greek origin meaning “hand-wing” to describe the mammal’s unique anatomical feature. The order is the second-largest order of mammals, following only rodents. ...

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NATURE’s new film “The Bat Man of Mexico” follows the journey of ecologist Rodrigo Medellin as he tracks the lesser long-nosed bat’s epic migration across Mexico. Since Medellin first kept bats in his bathroom as a child, he has dedicated his life to saving them. ...

Ecologist Rodrigo Medellin set up remote cameras in a bat “nursery.” The cameras capture a behavior that has never been filmed before: a mother giving birth.

To track the migration patterns and distances of the lesser long-nosed bats, Ecologist Rodrigo Medellin coats the bats he catches in harmless UV dust, which they lick off and digest. The glowing dust passes through their system, and by tracking the glowing bat droppings, he ...

More than three million bats live in the caves of Calakmul. To avoid being eaten by predators, they form a living tornado, or "bat volcano," when they fly. In this whirling mass, it’s almost impossible for their predators to choose a target.