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A Young Champion for Bats The next time you feel like your one voice can’t make much of a difference, consider the case of seven-year-old Ian Starkey of Mount Morris, Illinois. When a number of residents asked the county government to do something about bats living in the Old Lee County Court House, Ian – a member of Bat Conservation International – wrote a letter to a county official explaining exactly why “bats are good.”
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Replacing Superstition in the Philippines In much of the Philippines, bats are reviled as crop pests and feared as witches and demonic messengers. Many are killed out of fear or hunted to become a delicacy known as bat adobo. Farmers insist bats gather at night to eat their coconuts and drink tuba, the native coconut wine collected in bamboo stalks....more
A Guano-based Ecosystem Bat guano’s value as a premiere fertilizer for plants has been well-known for centuries. And scientists, including some working at Bat Conservation International’s Bracken Bat Cave in Texas, have shown that countless bacteria and fungi thrive on a diet of bat droppings. Now a zoologist finds that a species of salamander is doing quite well by feeding mostly on guano in an Oklahoma cave. ...more |
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Corynorhinus townsendii
Townsend's big-eared bats are found throughout western North America, from British Columbia to Mexico....more
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