bats
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Australia’s Threatened Bats Need Protection From A Silent Killer: White-Nose Syndrome
We already know how deadly this summer’s fires have been for mammals, birds, and reptiles across Australia. But beyond this bushfire season, many of those same species ” including our bats, which make up around a quarter of all Australian mammal species ” are facing another devastating threat to their survival.
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Discovery Of Extinct Burrowing Bat Tells Mysterious Story About New Zealand
All but three land mammal species living on New Zealand today were brought there by modern humans, beginning around 800 years ago – and all three of those native mammal species are bats. But a newly discovered bat fossil suggests that there may be more species hiding in the isle’s ancient rock. Perhaps the mammal-poor…
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Two-Headed Bat Found In Brazil Is The Stuff Of Nightmares
Nature isn’t always sunshine and kitties. This proved itself yet again recently, when researchers at the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro published a study on a pair of conjoined bat twins discovered in southeastern Brazil back in 2001. The animals were dead when they were discovered, which is almost always the case with…
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Just Look At This Robot Bat Go
Video: It flies! It swoops! It’s a Bat Bot!