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Plants & Animals Jul 26, 2021

Installing bat boxes could help revive Canada's depleting bat population

From habitat loss to disease, bat species across Canada are facing multiple threats. As cities expand, the large old trees that bats call home are being cleared and bats are losing their roosts.

Plants & Animals Jul 20, 2021

Young forests are preferred summer vacation destinations for bats

The sight of felled trees and logging activity can be jarring for nature lovers, but from those sites can sprout young forest growth that's especially attractive to a familiar inhabitant of wooded areas throughout the Northeast—bats.

Plants & Animals Jul 19, 2021

Bats in Tel Aviv enjoy a rich variety of food

A new Tel Aviv University study found that, like humans, bats living in Tel Aviv enjoy the wide variety and abundance of food that the city has to offer, in contrast to rural bats living in Beit Guvrin, who are content eating ...

Plants & Animals Jul 19, 2021

Novel coronavirus discovered in British bats

A coronavirus related to the virus that causes COVID-19 in humans has been found in UK horseshoe bats—according to new collaborative research from the University of East Anglia, ZSL (Zoological Society of London), and Public ...

Plants & Animals Jul 16, 2021

Bats keep chit-chat simple in the air

Bat conversations might be light on substance, according to researchers from the University of Cincinnati.

Plants & Animals Jul 13, 2021

Bats and behemoths: How large mammals may help bat diversity in the world's oldest desert

Theresa Laverty had a lot of flexibility in deciding what she would study for her doctoral dissertation when she arrived at Colorado State University, thanks to a graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation. ...

Plants & Animals Jul 8, 2021

A peek inside a flying bat's brain uncovers clues to mammalian navigation

When driving up to a busy intersection, you probably pay more attention to where you will be in the near future than where you are at that moment. After all, knowing when you will arrive at the intersection—and whether you ...

Paleontology & Fossils Jul 7, 2021

Researchers detail the most ancient bat fossil ever discovered in Asia

:left]A new paper appearing in Biology Letters describes the oldest-known fragmentary bat fossils from Asia, pushing back the evolutionary record for bats on that continent to the dawn of the Eocene and boosting the possibility ...

Plants & Animals Jul 7, 2021

For female vampire bats, an equal chance to rule the roost

Female vampire bats establish an egalitarian community within a roost rather than a society based on a clear hierarchy of dominance that is often seen in animal groups, a new study suggests.

Ecology Jun 16, 2021

Bats in Switzerland harbor diverse viruses, some potentially zoonotic

An analysis of 18 species of stationary and migratory bats living in Switzerland has discovered that they harbor viruses from 39 different viral families—including some viruses with the potential risk of jumping to other ...

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