News articles tagged with 'bat'
How bats 'hear' objects in their path
— 28 Nov 2011 19:26 | BiologyBy placing real and virtual objects in the flight paths of bats, scientists at the Universities of Bristol and Munich have shed new light on how echolocation works. Their research is…
Bats worth billions to agriculture
— 2 Apr 2011 11:16 | EnvironmentPest-control services provided by insect-eating bats in the United States likely save the U.S. agricultural industry at least $3 billion a year, and yet insectivorous bats are among…
Food forensics: DNA links habitat quality to bat diet
— 4 Mar 2011 14:38 | BiologyAll night long, bats swoop over our landscape consuming insects, but they do this in secret, hidden from our view. Until recently, scientists have been unable to bring their ecosystem…
Biologists use GPS to 'map' bats teeth to explore evolutionary adaptations to diet
— 18 Feb 2011 17:20 | BiologyUsing a method based on geographic positioning systems that allowed them to characterise the topography of the bats' molars in a way similar to how geographers characterise mountain…
Death in the bat caves: Disease wiping out hibernating bats
— 3 Feb 2011 17:54 | BiologyConservationists across the United States are racing to discover a solution to White-Nose Syndrome, a disease that is threatening to wipe out bat species across North America. A review…
Researchers bust bat rabies stereotype
— 1 Feb 2011 20:24 | BiologyBats tend to have a bad reputation. They sleep all day, party at night, and are commonly thought to be riddled with rabies. A study by University of Calgary researchers has confirmed…
Death in the bat caves: UC Davis experts call for action against fast-moving disease
— 19 Jan 2011 18:44 | BiologyA team of wildlife experts led by UC Davis called today for a national fight against a new fungus that has killed more than 1 million bats in the eastern United States and is spreading…
Bat brains offer clues as to how we focus on some sounds and not others
— 15 Nov 2010 16:54 | BiologyHow do you know what to listen to? In the middle of a noisy party, how does a mother suddenly focus on a child's cry, even if it isn't her own?…
Slight change in wind turbine speed significantly reduces bat mortality
— 2 Nov 2010 14:52 | EnvironmentWhile wind energy has shown strong potential as a large-scale, emission-free energy source, bat and bird collisions at wind turbines result in thousands of fatalities annually. Migratory…
Deadly bat fungus found in several European countries
— 26 Aug 2010 08:25 | BiologyWithin five years the death toll of North American bats succumbing to 'white-nose syndrome' has reached the one million threshold, now the causative fungus Geomyces destructans was…