Volume 6, Number 10 - October 2008            Current Circulation: 15297 Return to Archive
Bats in the News
Bats always come out around Halloween – at least in the news media, where feature stories about bats are especially popular this time of year. They vary wildly in quality, but one of the best bat stories of Halloween 2008 comes from The Associated Press and appeared in newspapers around the United States....more

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Get up close and personal with an amazing diversity of bats next summer: Sign up for a 2009 Bat Conservation International field workshop in Arizona, Kentucky or Pennsylvania. For 17 years, BCI workshops have offered unequaled hands-on training in the latest techniques for capturing, identifying and studying bats in the field ...more

Bats Underground
Dangling from a rope 70 feet down a 75-foot mine shaft, Jason Corbett very carefully examined a tangled mass of timbers, rocks and steel just beneath him. But the debris had so many nooks and crannies he couldn’t reach a confident conclusion about the absence of snakes. Besides bats, the animals he most often encounters in abandoned mines are snakes – especially the rattlesnakes that thrive in Arizona. Satisfied that his landing zone was clear, Corbett dropped the final few feet...more

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 Species Profile
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Myotis yumanensis
Although Yuma myotis feed predominantly over water, they eat a variety of insects that includes moths......more

Bat Fact: Did you know...contrary to popular misconception, bats are not blind, do not become entangled in human hair, and seldom transmit disease to other animals or humans.
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