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High-Tech Bat Counting When thousands – or millions – of bats gather in a cave or mine, figuring out how many are in there can be a daunting challenge. Yet, accurate counts are critical in determining the status of bat populations, especially endangered species such as the Mexican long-nosed bat. ...more
Bats in the News People have been dumping trash into Pulaski Cave for decades. Now there’s a 45-foot-high pile of trash that includes just about everything from refrigerators, stoves and chairs to a battered vehicle or two and a lot of things that defy description. And still a few bats come.
The Herald-Leader newspaper in Lexington, Kentucky, reports that “about 500 rare Rafinesque’s big-eared bats hibernate from fall to spring in [the cave, beyond the unofficial dump].
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BCI Photos Go Online Bat Conservation International has the largest collection of bat photographs in the world – about 75,000 professional-quality images of bat species from every continent but Antarctica. And now many of the best of those photos are available at the BCI website: www.batcon.org.
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Lasiurus ega
These bats feed on insects which they probably capture in flight....more
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