Tag: Bats - Page 2
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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,
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Chinese Fruit Bats Demonstrate Unusual Sexual Behavior Never Before Seen in Adult Animals
New research published in the online journal PLoS ONE demonstrates for the first time that a non-human adult animal species regularly engages in oral sex behavior. While the behavior has
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If Animals Could Talk... They'd Say, 'Keep It Down Out There, We're Trying to Breed!'
It's driving people crazy in Cairo, boosting risks of heart disease and high blood pressure in San
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Chasing Orchids and Fireflies in Central Colorado
Tours with the Roaring Fork Conservancy offer a rare opportunity to explore the Filoha Meadows Open Space, a beautiful area off-limits to most visitors as county conservationists work to return the fragile landscape to its original state.
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How Radar Could Protect Bats From Wind Turbines
The great threat to birds from wind turbines may be, in most places,
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Thousands of Bat Caves Closed Due to Fungus Infestations
Bad news for bats. Remember that heat box idea for bats suffering from a fungus? Looks like the idea isn't as crazy as it sounds. Thousands of caves in 33 states are being closed to
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Solar Powered Heaters May Save Bats
And they thought wind turbines were a pain. More than 80% of of the deaths in several bat populations in the northeastern United States and Canada have been caused by a fungus - indirectly. Scientists haven't
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Wind Power Avian and Bat Protection Plan Released by Iberdrola Renewables
Wind power may be undeniably better in terms of carbon emissions than fossil fuel energy sources, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t genuine environmental concerns to take into consideration when building projects. And
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Turkish Authorities Say: Let Sleeping Bats Lie
Hibernating bats in Havran, near Turkey's Aegean coast, can rest easy this winter, thanks to a decision by local authorities to hold off on pumping water into a nearby dam reservoir, an action that would have flooded their cave.
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Bats and Wind Turbines Don't Mix — Researchers Look to Reduce Mysterious Deaths
A common complaint registered against wind turbines is that they kill too many birds. This has been largely revealed to be a myth, but it turns out that birds’ nocturnal winged counterparts aren’t so lucky. Bats have
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Bats More At Risk From Wind Turbines Than Birds, Study Claims
Based on past TreeHugger posts at least, the jury is still out on whether wind turbines really kill so many birds that we ought to overly worry about it. Well, a recent study published in Current Biology focuses not on
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Ohio Manages Risk of Wildlife Impacts From Wind Turbines: An Update
We're not sure what gives birds and bats more stress: wind turbines or ideological opponents of wind turbines who use irrational avian mortality fears as a political wedge. Letting actual field biologists do some site specific research is generally
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Bat House Competition Winner Chosen
Bonnie previously covered the Bat house Competition, "to design a wildlife-friendly house for bats. The project connects the worlds of art and ecology and encourages the public’s involvement with ecology issues. The winning entry will be built at the
