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October 30, 2025
🦇 Bat Week 2025 brought science, conservation, and community together! We hosted a special screening of "The Invisible Mammal" - an award-winning documentary following an all-woman team of biologists ...
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nfwctally on October 30, 2025
Bat Week is the perfect time for a fruit bat feeding frenzy! 🦇 In this video, you can see some of our straw-colored fruit bat colony excitedly rushing over to one of their many fruit kebabs for breakf...
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innerspacecavern on October 30, 2025
🌿 Did you know? 🌿 Inner Space Cavern isn’t just a stunning underground world—it’s also home to a special colony of tri-color bats! 🦇 These small bats use the cavern’s unique structure as a safe place ...
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cwhcrcsf on October 30, 2025
Mist nets are one tool that researchers use to live-trap bats for their studies. The mist nets are made of such fine thread that the bats typically don’t detect them during their flight. The bats fly ...
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October 30, 2025
Meet the Trinidadian Funnel-eared Bat (Natalus tumidirostris)! Fun fact: this tiny bat has a very long tail —longer than their head and body length. Happy Bat Week! 🦇 Filmed with the help of merl...
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merseytobeatic on October 30, 2025
🎵 Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo 🎵 qui vas-tu appeler? Les chasseurs de nuisibles! Bienvenue à notre dose quotidienne de la semaine des chauves-souris (batweek)! 🦇 Saviez-vous que de nombreuses chauves-sour...
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shears.rick on October 30, 2025
#BatWeek #BatWeek2025 #BatAppreciationMonth The smallest bat in the world is the Bumblebee Bat (Kitti's hog-nosed Bat) at 1.5 to 2.0 grams. A U.S. penny weighs in around 2.5 grams. Take a penny out o...
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texastestedseeds on October 30, 2025
Build single board bat houses to celebrate #BatWeek! Bat houses should be hung at least 10 feet, and preferably 15 feet above the ground. A warm east wall near vegetation and a water source is best fo...
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mississippi_valley_conservancy on October 30, 2025
Bats are not scary. Life WITHOUT bats is scary! Did you know that little brown bats consume insect pests, including up to 9 types of mosquitoes known to carry West Nile virus, and a total of 17 types...