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Bats in the News A reporter from the Ashland, Kentucky, Independent went looking for a story on recreational cavers, and came away with an article on science and how Bat Conservation International is working to save the Indiana myotis from extinction. Down inside a limestone cave, reporter Allen Blair ran into a pair of Bat Conservation International scientists busily counting bats. ...more
Entertaining Education A small bat swoops down on a cactus flower, hovers for an instant, dips its long nose deep into the blossom and shoots out its tongue to collect a sip of the artificial nectar puddled inside. This mealtime activity by the Mexican long-nosed bat delights the children and adults watching through the glass window barely four feet (1.2 meters) away.
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Saving a Rare Roost The Townsend’s big-eared bat, one of the most imperiled bats in the Pacific Northwest, uses the abandoned Pitney Butte Mine in eastern Washington as a vital nursery roost – and perhaps as a hibernation site, as well. But the mine is located on public land near a popular recreation area that gets a million visitors a year. The Bureau of Land Management, to protect human visitors, had marked the mine for permanent closure, possibly by bulldozing the entrances.
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Myotis evotis
Only one other western forest bat has been found regularly roosting at ground level....more
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