🎃 Happy Halloween from the Discovery Zoo and all of us at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery! 🎃🍬🍭
Our animals are feeling the spooky spirit today! 🦉 They’ve been enjoying their Halloween-themed enrich...
As this year’s #BatWeek comes to a close, we are taking the opportunity to highlight this fascinating, and at times misrepresented, animal for its vital role in conserving the health of our environmen...
Bat-Gate 2024 🦇 It's not a scandal... just a gathering of the United States' best cave and mine gaters!
For this last day of #BatWeek, let's go back to the beginning of October when OSMRE ecologist B...
Little brown bats (LBBs) have long lifespans for small mammals. A healthy LBB averages 6–7 years, with one individual captured in the wild at 31 years of age!
The main cause of the decrease in the Ke...
WILDLIFE DISCOVERY ALERT! Our own doctoral ucfbiology student, Jenny White, has discovered the first silver-haired bat found in the state of Florida (also known as Lasionycteris noctivagans) during #B...
🎃🦇 Happy Halloween and happy last day of #BatWeek! 🦇🎃
Bats aren’t just iconic Halloween creatures—they’re also vital to our environment! Many bat species are pollinators and help spread plant seeds,...
Today is the peak of spooky season, but it's also the last day of #BatWeek! 🦇 Bats play an essential role in the ecosystem with pest control, spreading seeds, and pollinating plants. But they are impe...
Check out this vintage poster we found from batconservationinternational in 1999!
We're sure you've heard by now but today is the last day of bat week - a week to raise awareness about our flying fr...