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Bats in the News The deep wrinkles and grooves that carve the faces of some bats apparently help them focus the biological sonar system that lets them navigate in the dark, scientists in China told the online LiveScience of Yahoo! News. Bats maneuver and hunt by emitting echolocation calls and analyzing the echoes that bounce off objects in their paths. Most bats emit the calls from their mouths, but about 300 species use their noses.
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A New World’s Record The longest tongue (relative to body length) ever reported in a mammal resides largely inside the ribcage of a recently discovered bat in the mountains of Ecuador. The tongue of the tube-lipped nectar bat (Anoura fistulata) is one and a half times as long as its body. Nathan Muchhala of the University of Miami (Florida) discovered the new species with the support of a BCI Graduate Student Research Scholarship. He concludes that this remarkable bat evolved in tandem with an extremely long, trumpet-shaped
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Member Nights at Bracken Cave Now is the time to take advantage of one of the most dramatic benefits of membership in Bat Conservation International: an exclusive invitation to watch the world’s largest bat colony come swirling out of Bracken Bat Cave in Central Texas.
The twilight emergence of 20 million Mexican free-tailed bats continues for hours and is among the most awesome spectacles nature has to offer. Clouds of hungry bats fly from the mouth of the cave in a dense spiral, then peel off into ...more
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Myotis ciliolabrum
The western small-footed myotis rears its young in cliff-face crevices, erosion cavities, and beneath rocks on the ground....more
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