Batphone: From baddies to biodiversity
Scientists have brought to life the batphone, launching a new smartphone app to monitor the world's bats.
Jun 24, 2011
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Neuroscientist shows bats feel their way through the air using tiny hair sensors
(PhysOrg.com) -- Susanne Sterbing-D'Angelo, has shown, along with her colleagues from the University of Maryland, that bats use tiny hairs on their wings to feel the air around them as they fly, which allows ...
Jun 21, 2011
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'Lost' bats found breeding on Scilly
A University of Exeter biologist has discovered a 'lost' species of bat breeding on the Isles of Scilly (UK). A pregnant female brown long-eared bat is the first of its species to be found on the islands for ...
Jun 17, 2011
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Hibernation keeps rabies going in bats
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, infectious disease biologist Dylan George from Colorado State University reports that a bat’s hibernation is wha ...
Jun 07, 2011
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Big city holds empty promise for bats
In the treeless, flat Prairie, you'd think a city would provide a good home for bats who like to snuggle up and roost in trees and buildings. But researchers at the University of Calgary made the surprising ...
May 31, 2011
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Bat researchers discover new species on St. Vincent island
(PhysOrg.com) -- At first glance, the bat captured in St. Vincent looked like a common type found in South America.
May 24, 2011
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Wildlife in trouble from oil palm plantations, according to scientists
Bats lend an ear to sonar engineering
Researchers have mapped out the diversity of bat ears in a hope to inspire the design of new intuitive methods of manipulating waves with physical shapes, such as SONAR and RADAR.
May 10, 2011
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Why does rain keep bats grounded?
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study published in Biology Letters, researcher Christian Voigt from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Germany details their findings on Sowell’s short-tailed bats a ...
May 05, 2011
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Study: Bat disease may increase farm pesticide use
A group of researchers says the threat posed to bats by a fatal disease isn't just a threat to the animals but to American agriculture, one they believe farmers and consumers alike scarcely appreciate.
Apr 13, 2011
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Fungus sweeps across the country, killing bats
More than 100 hibernating bats hang from the vaulted ceiling of a chilly gallery in central New Mexico's Fort Stanton Cave, seemingly unaware of the lights from helmet lanterns sweeping over their gargoyle-like faces.
Apr 07, 2011
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UT professor finds economic importance of bats in the billions
Bats in North America are under a two-pronged attack but they are not the only victim – so is the U.S. economy. Gary McCracken, head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University ...
Mar 31, 2011
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Bats keep separate households
(PhysOrg.com) -- The use of different resources by males and females exacerbates the estimation of population sizes. However, the monitoring of population sizes, particularly for rare and threatened species, ...
Mar 24, 2011
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Food forensics: DNA links habitat quality to bat diet
Scientists use storm-chasing weather radar to track bat populations
Storm chasers have become bat watchers. A scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, working with meteorologists at the University of Oklahoma, is using mobile storm-chasing radars to follow swarms of bats as ...
Feb 18, 2011
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