Illinois is home to 13 species of bats, from the tiny tricolored bat to the big brown bat. They live in forests, caves, and even attics! 🦇 Each one plays a role in keeping our ecosystems balanced by e...
#BatWeek continues with IOB co author
Flo Visconti
whose thesis topic is Untangling the #olfactory enigma in the Chestnut short-tailed fruit #bat
https://faculty.washington.edu/ssantana/wordpress/te...
🦇🍂 Тиждень кажанів — час відчути магію ночі! 🌙
Щороку наприкінці жовтня у світі відзначають #BatWeek — символічно напередодні Гелловіну, аби нагадати, що кажани не страшні, а неймовірно корисні! 🐭💫
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🦇 Creature Feature: Natterer’s Bat 🦇
It’s Bat Week and Spooky Season, so who better to celebrate than our resident bat expert’s favourite species — the Natterer’s bat!
These bats are masters of sl...
Halcón murcielaguero (Falco rufigularis), observando si es seguro comenzar a desayunar su captura reciente.
Elegí esta postal dentro del marco de la #murcisemana, pues los murciélagos no solo nos pro...
Hoary Bats (Lasiurus cinereus) are one of the 3 migratory bats in Canada, spending most of the summer dispersed across all Canadian provinces and territories. In the fall, they make long-distance flig...
Talk about a champion for bat conservation! 💪
For years, eastern Connecticut resident Ruth has hosted one of the largest known little brown bat maternal colonies in the state! Rather than going throu...
Just because it’s #batweek! This is the Macroglossus minimus or the lesser long-tongued bat. 🦇
The Lesser Long-tongued Bat (Macroglossus minimus) is a small bat with about 65-78 mm length and 14-20 g...
Inktober 2025, no. 29: Lesson. It's still Bat Week! All bats are in the order Chiroptera, Greek for "hand wing." Their limbs correspond to those of humans. They fly differently than birds, flexing the...