Tag: Bats
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How to Remove a Bat from Indoors
In the face of a devastating epidemic, bats need our tender loving care more than ever. If one sneaks inside, here's how to remove it without toxicants or harm.
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The Week in Animal News: Powerful Sea Cucumber Poo, Giant Pythons Invade Florida and More
Sea cucumber poo may be the key to saving the world's great coral reefs from devastation. Invasive pythons are doing damage in the Everglades, eight sea lions were found shot to death in Washington and more.
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Why Bats Need a 'Happy Hour' and Swedes Try to Comply
Wind power is not just a Danish success story - Swedish wind is growing leaps and bounds. But the bats may suffer, so the Swedes are trying to impose 'bat happy hour'
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Scientists Estimate Up to 6.7 Million Bats Dead From Disease
White nose syndrome has decimated bat populations on the East Coast. Now scientists believe the disease, which is spreading, may have been worse than previously imagined.
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The Week in Animal News: Epically Lost Sea Turtle to be Released, Sylvester Stallone Movie Harms Bats, and More
A young sea turtle found in the Netherlands will be released after a three-year recovery. We also have the search for the "extinct" Javan tiger, Sylvester Stallone's bat cave incident, and more.
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Action-Flick Filming Takes Toll on Bulgarian Bat Cave
The filming of a Sylvester Stallone movie in a Bulgarian cave has dramatically reduced the animals' numbers, bat experts say.
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South Carolina Documents Its First Human Rabies Case in Over 50 Years
South Carolina health department announces a human rabies case sourced from a bat.
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Billboard Houses Bats and Translates Their Speech, Tells Us What's Up
If you've ever seen a colony of bats on the move and wondered what they're up to, this is the billboard for you. The "Bat Billboard," a collaboration of designer Chris Woebken and artist Natalie Jeremijenko, is a
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Insect Hotels Abound at Chelsea Flower Show
Insect hotels are architectural, recycled and perfectly formed. But you can't stay there: they are for the bugs.
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Deadly White Nose Syndrome Keeps Spreading Among New York's Bat Population
New York's brown bat continues to be hard hit by White Nose Syndrome (WNS). WNS is named for the white fungus that eats bat tissues and wakes the bats prematurely from hibernation. WNS has been
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Fascinating New Species Found in Papua New Guinea
When it comes to finding fascinating species previously unknown to science, it turns out that forests of Papua New Guinea are a darn good place to look. Researchers have recently disclosed their
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Cool High-Rise Bat Habitat Draws Nature's Pest-Fighters to New York Sculpture Park (Video)
If all goes well between now and Halloween, Griffis Sculpture Park in upstate New York will be ready for the occasion with its very own colony of bats, thanks to the artsy "Bat Tower" being built to draw the pest-fighting pollinators to the area.
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Amazon Tribe Battles Rabid Vampire Bats
At the edge of the Amazon, a remote tribe suffers a plague of rabies spread by desperate vampire bats. It sounds like the plot from a bad B-movie, but the reality is far more grim: More than 500 people have been
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Little Brown Bat Will Be Pushed to Extinction by Spreading White Nose Syndrome: New Study
photo: US Fish & Wildlife Service via flickr White nose syndrome, a disease caused by exposure to a particular fungus, first discovered in 2006, has been afflicting bats in the eastern United States and appears to be spreading. Considering that it's
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Whatever, Tigers and Pandas: Lesser-Known Endangered Species Need Help Too (Slideshow)
With thousands of species listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature -- and some 110,000
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10 Adorable Bats That May or May Not Suck Your Blood
It's hard to get a good look at creatures that only come out at night and, like most things that only appear in the dark, bats have a reputation for being more terrifying than charming. But some of these little guys are downright cute--like the Hondura
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Going Steady: 10 Animals More Monogamous Than Us (Slideshow)
Ah love. Woody Allen has some nice thoughts on this tricky thing that perhaps gets more thought around Valentine's Day. The recent swan divorce shocked us to the core, so we decided to ponder the happy
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European Bats Resistant to Deadly Fungus
Since 2006, bat populations in the northeastern United States have been decimated by a mysterious condition known as "white-nose syndrome." Caused by a fungus,
