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Ecology Mar 28, 2023

Conserving wildlife can help mitigate climate change by supercharging ecosystem carbon sinks

Protecting wildlife across the world could significantly enhance natural carbon capture and storage by supercharging ecosystem carbon sinks, a new study led by Yale School of the Environment Oastler Professor of Population ...

Ecology Mar 24, 2023

Protecting little brown bats from white-nose syndrome

In a new study, researchers have found that little brown bats suffering from white-nose syndrome (WNS) greatly increased their foraging activity at artificial bug buffets. The buffets, located near hibernation sites, will ...

Biotechnology Mar 17, 2023

Math answers puzzling behavior of bat ears, paving way for real-world upgrade to sonar tech

One iconic feature of the batsuit that makes Batman easily recognizable may soon give the Dark Knight's go-to sonar technology a real-world upgrade—bat-like ears. Only, these ears would not just look like a bat's, but would ...

Molecular & Computational biology Mar 15, 2023

Testing the idea of using a fast-spreading virus to inoculate colonies of bats against rabies

A team of virologists and veterinary scientists from the Medical Research Council–University of Glasgow Center for Virus Research and the University of Glasgow's School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine, ...

Veterinary medicine Mar 13, 2023

Culling bats after rabies outbreak found to be an ineffective strategy to prevent livestock loss

A team of biologists at the University of Glasgow, working with colleagues from several institutes in Perú, has found that culling bat colonies after a rabies outbreak in livestock is not an effective way to halt the spread ...

Plants & Animals Feb 21, 2023

Researchers study first stem cells from a bat species known to harbor SARS-CoV-2

Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have generated the first induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from bats, gaining valuable insights into the close relationship between bats and viruses. This ...

Plants & Animals Feb 14, 2023

Protecting bats with better wind turbine control

Bat fatalities caused by wind turbines could be significantly reduced by as much as 86% thanks to a new site-specific mitigation scheme described by researchers in a study in the journal Mammalia.

Plants & Animals Feb 13, 2023

Protecting bats at wind turbines

An international team of 21 researchers and ecological consultants, including the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, have published a study on the protection of bats at wind turbines in the journal Mammal Review.

Plants & Animals Feb 9, 2023

A secret weapon in preventing the next pandemic: Fruit bats

More than four dozen Jamaican fruit bats destined for a lab in Bozeman, Montana, are set to become part of an experiment with an ambitious goal: predicting the next global pandemic.

Evolution Feb 8, 2023

Whiskers help nectar-eating 'acro bats' hover like hummingbirds

From dragonflies to hummingbirds, hovering flight is among the most complex and captivating forms of animal movement—a physiological feat of size, musculature and wing development.

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