To celebrate Bat Week, here are some photos from our twspurdue Mammals Working Group's bat hike at the Purdue Wildlife Area in early October. Thanks to graduate student Tina Jackson for teaching them ...
It’s #BatWeek — and you BATter believe we’re excited to celebrate these incredible creatures! Bats are essential to our environment and play a vital role in keeping ecosystems healthy. You can thank t...
Desmistificando os morcegos! 🦇
Eles não são ratos, não! 🙆🏻♀️
Os morcegos pertencem à sua própria ordem, Chiroptera, que significa "mãos com asas", e desempenham papéis essenciais na natureza, como p...
Now You Know! - The recent discovery of Pipistrellus etula, currently restricted to Bioko Island off the coast of Central Africa in Equatorial Guinea, has brought the world total of bat species to 1,5...
Halloween 🎃 week starts with Bat Week!
Did you know...
That only two bat 🦇 species feed from blood of little animals and cadle. The rest eat insects and fruits.
Bats are fundamental for ecosyste...
Myth busted: Bats are not blind! 🦇 They use echolocation to locate objects and prey while flying.
Rafinesque’s big-eared bat has inch long ears, and their prey are moths. Moths have a special ear t...
🌿🦇 Bat Guano: Nature’s Super Fertilizer! 🦇🌿
In celebration of Bat Week, let’s talk about one of the incredible benefits bats provide—bat guano! This natural fertilizer is packed with essential nutrie...
In honor of Bat Appreciation Week, let us take a moment of silence to remember the bat who tragically got lost in the practice hallway at Lawrence Conservatory of Music for two days, then flew into th...
🦇🛹🤙These bat emergence videos are sonar-ly! 🤙🛹🦇
Each summer, thousands of female Cave Myotis form large maternity colonies, right here in Kansas! Biologists at KDWP are using thermal infrared cameras...