My friends might say that I may sometimes have batty ideas. Just now, however, I do have my mind on bats, real ones that occur in Southeast Alaska. There are now six species of bat known to be ...

Bat populations in some places in North America appear to have developed resistance to the deadly fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome. Researchers from UC Santa Cruz analyzed infection data ...

White patches of fungus can be seen on this northern long-eared bat affected by white-nose syndrome in Illinois. (Photo by J.R. Hoyt) UC Santa Cruz graduate student Joseph Hoyt releases a little brown ...

Many people would not describe bats as cute. This is likely because of bats’ associations with viruses, darkness, and evil. Granted, bats are somewhat weird animals, being the only mammals that can ...

A revision of S. R. Humphrey's thesis, Oklahoma State University. POPULATION ECOLOGY OF THE LITTLE BROWN BAT MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS IN INDIANA AND NORTHCENTRAL KENTUCKY BY STEPHEN R HUMPHREY AND JAMES B ...

Massachusetts biologist Elise Stanmyer scrambled into the dark of an abandoned World War II military building. She whispered so she wouldn’t wake its winged residents. Her headlamp illuminated one ...

The New Jersey Division of New Jersey Fish and Wildlife is asking residents to keep an eye out for bats and provide officials with reports on sightings. Researchers use several methods to track ...