Horseshoe bats in China are a natural wildlife reservoir of SARS-like coronaviruses. Some health experts think wildlife markets—specifically in Wuhan, China—led to the spillover of the new coronavirus into human populations. ...
Ecology
Apr 24, 2020
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Bats do a lot of good for the world—they pollinate plants, they eat disease-carrying insects, and they help disperse seeds that help with the regeneration of tropical forest trees. Bats and a range of other mammal groups ...
Evolution
Apr 23, 2020
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When entrances to caves and mines—essential roosting places for bats—are blocked to prevent people from going inside, the gates often include a pipe to allow bats to access their roosts. However, many of the pipes have ...
Ecology
Jan 30, 2020
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We already know how deadly this summer's fires have been for mammals, birds, and reptiles across Australia. But beyond this bushfire season, many of those same species—including our bats, which make up around a quarter ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 20, 2020
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Here's the thing about bats: They can fly. And they do that in the dark.
Plants & Animals
Nov 15, 2019
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Right now, there are trillions of bacteria living in your gut, making up about one percent of your body weight. They're supposed to be there—we need them to help us digest food and fight off diseases. The same is true for ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 12, 2019
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It's the time of year when ghouls and goblins, mummies and monsters are out in force. But unlike many Halloween creatures, bats live in more than the imagination, making their homes in caves and hollowed-out trees in Illinois ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 5, 2019
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Seed dispersal on Guam, a crucial process for regenerating and diversifying the island's forests that has significantly declined with the diminishing bird population, is still being carried out by the few remaining Mariana ...
Ecology
Oct 7, 2019
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Horseshoe bats are bizarre-looking animals with giant ears and elaborate flaps of skin on their noses that they use like satellite dishes. There are about a hundred different species of horseshoe bats—and that number is ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 22, 2019
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The whoosh of wings disturbs the quiet of an abandoned, pitch-black maze of corridors next to the Jordan River in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Environment
Jul 17, 2019
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