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Wind turbines kill almost 1 million bats per year, because they confuse them with trees

Ninety-eight percent of cave-hibernating bats have died in Pennsylvania, say biologists

NY, NJ residents arming with anything they can find - shotguns, bows, bats, machetes

A Link Between Bat Deaths and Pesticides?

Pesticides are killing birds, bees, and bats by the millions

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The odd durian “superfruit” requires bats for pollination

March 11, 2018 - bats destroy the flowers in the process.

Aziz adds, "It doesn’t help that a durian flower only blooms for one night, then falls off the tree naturally, regardless of whether it’s been pollinated or not. When people see all the flowers on the ground in the morning, they think it’s the bats."

But thanks to footage from camera traps Aziz and her colleagues set up in durian trees on Tioman Island, which can be found off the coast of peninsular Malaysia, ...

A century-old glow: Museum bats reveal a luminous secret

November 01, 2025 - bats' luminous properties. Using a precise instrument called a spectroradiometer, they measured the exact wavelength of the green light emitted from the bats' wings, limbs and tail membranes.

The results were unequivocal. A bat collected during the Roaring Twenties produced the exact same green emission—peaking between 520 and 552 nanometers—as a bat caught just two decades ago. The color had not faded or shifted. This durability demonstrates that the ...

Pesticides are killing birds, bees, and bats by the millions

January 18, 2010 - Pesticides are killing birds, bees, and bats by the millions

Monday, January 18, 2010 by: Ethan HuffTags: pesticides, bees, health news

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First It Was Bees, Now It's Bats That Are Dying

April 11, 2008 - First It Was Bees, Now It's Bats That Are Dying

Friday, April 11, 2008 by: Heidi StevensonTags: bats, health news, Natural News

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First It Was Bees, Now It's Bats That Are Dying

April 11, 2008 - First It Was Bees, Now It's Bats That Are Dying

Friday, April 11, 2008 by: Heidi StevensonTags: bats, health news, Natural News

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Video reveals Wuhan laboratory kept bats despite claiming it did not

June 21, 2021 -

In a June 13 report questioning the COVID-19 pandemic's origins, Sky News Australia showed footage of bats inside a cage. It also showed footage of similar-looking cages and a scientist feeding a caged bat. The clips were taken from a 2017 Chinese state promotional video released to coincide with the WIV's opening that year. A group called DRASTIC – consisting of scientists and investigators examining the origins of the pandemic – gave the full video to the news station....

Bats haven’t been sold at Wuhan wet markets for two years

June 16, 2021 - bats) were traded, supporting reformed opinion that pangolins were not likely the spillover host at the source of the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. While we caution against the misattribution of COVID-19's origins, the wild animals on sale in Wuhan suffered poor welfare and hygiene conditions and we detail a range of other zoonotic infections they can potentially vector."

As it turns out, communist China had imposed a temporary ban on the wildlife trade, ...

Study reveals bats have an internal “compass” that functions independent of celestial cues

December 17, 2025 -

For the first time, researchers have recorded the neural activity of mammals navigating in the wild, revealing that bats rely on a sophisticated internal "compass" that functions independently of celestial cues like the moon and stars.

The study, conducted on the remote Latham Island off the Tanzanian coast and published in Science, provides unprecedented insights into how mammals orient themselves across large geographical areas. In ...

Scientists investigate the secret of bats’ longevity – can it be adapted to humans?

September 26, 2019 -

Two researchers from the University of Maryland (UMD) studied the evolutionary history of many known chiropteran species. They identified four bat species that live extremely long lives.

Horseshoe bats, long-eared bats, the common vampire bats, and mouse-eared bats are fairly small animals, yet they live longer than other animals of the same size.

The UMD researchers also came across two factors that influence the animals' ...

Ninety-eight percent of cave-hibernating bats have died in Pennsylvania, say biologists

April 15, 2013 - Ninety-eight percent of cave-hibernating bats have died in Pennsylvania, say biologists

Monday, April 15, 2013 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writerTags: bats, white-nose syndrome, die-off

Loss of bats means influx of insects

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NY, NJ residents arming with anything they can find - shotguns, bows, bats, machetes

November 06, 2012 - NY, NJ residents arming with anything they can find - shotguns, bows, bats, machetes

Tuesday, November 06, 2012 by: J. D. HeyesTags: self defense, Hurricane Sandy, residents

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Pest-eating bats are easing financial pressure on farmers and may help regrow rainforests

July 19, 2019 - bats benefit from the situation.

Many native species of bats flock to the new rice fields, where they gorge upon the swarms of insect pests attacking the food crops. They unintentionally provide biological pest control for the farmers. (Related: Noise pollution threatening the food supply? Human-generated underwater noise found to disrupt the ability for fish to school.)Bats are protecting human rice fields from destructive insect pests

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Researcher suggests using bats to help people living in arid places find water sources

June 18, 2018 -

Having spent 18 months observing various bat species inhabiting South Africa’s northern Namib Desert, Laverty gained a good feel of the environment and how bats react to it. Writing for TheConversation.com, she explained that freshwater is extremely hard to come by in this coastal desert. The Namib Desert is nearly absolutely rainless, save for the occasional brief yet heavy thunderstorms.

Yet, over a dozen different bat species call this arid landscape home. This ...

Scientists aim to predict the next Ebola outbreak by tracking the migration patterns of BATS

July 10, 2018 -

Bats are considered to be a primary carrier of the Ebola virus. They are also reservoirs for it. The animals can carry the virus and infect humans and other animals, but they themselves are not affected by it.

Associate professor Javier Buceta of Lehigh University (Lehigh) led the effort to develop a model of the movement patterns of these animals. He reported that environmental changes affected the behavior of bats, which in turn altered the number of ...

Wind turbines kill almost 1 million bats per year, because they confuse them with trees

February 11, 2016 - Wind turbines kill almost 1 million bats per year, because they confuse them with trees

Thursday, February 11, 2016 by: PF LouisTags: wind turbines, bats, wildlife deaths

Bats getting killed by wind turbines

Another bat extinction threat worse than man's meddling

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Bats can anticipate their prey’s movements by building predictive models on the fly, says new study

December 25, 2020 -

In a newly published study, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) researchers explored the strategies bats employ to hunt at night using only their hearing. They hypothesized that echolocating bats build internal prediction models from dynamic acoustic stimuli to anticipate the future location of moving auditory targets. Using mathematical models, the researchers were able to not only quantify the direction of a bat's sonar beam aim and echolocation call rate, but ...

Wuhan wet markets where coronavirus reportedly came from never sold bats or pangolins, according to new study

June 16, 2021 -

The June 7 study published in Scientific Reports said that thousands of animals traded in Wuhan's wet markets were "capable of hosting a wide range of infectious zoonotic diseases or disease-bearing parasites." However, the study authors found "no evidence" of bats of pangolins kept at the markets. This led them to conclude that both animals frequently blamed for COVID-19 "were not the likely spillover host at the source of the coronavirus."

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Wuhan Institute of Virology pulls all photos and evidence showing workers handling tainted bats without protective gear

May 10, 2020 -

The latest thing to go is a series of photographs, all of which have been memory-holed, that show scientists at various WIV laboratories working on experiments without proper safety equipment. All references to visits by diplomats from the United States who later sounded the alarm about the school's work involving bats have also been scrubbed.

This latest wave of censorship comes after President Donald Trump announced that intelligence he has been shown gives him ...

Bats, like humans, decipher where others are from based on their regional “accent,” according to new study

November 05, 2017 -

The research team has then played a recording of conspecific vocalizations in each of the three chambers where the pups are roosting. The recordings, which mimic the intensity and frequency of about 100 to 200 adult bats, serve as stimuli that resemble natural roosting settings. The recordings have also been constantly played from day one up to one whole year.

The results have shown that the pups in the three different chambers have developed three distinct ...