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Who is the heaviest mammal?
... Kitti’s hog-nosed bat Craseonycteris thonglongyai Length 2.9-3.3cm Weight 2g ... in western Thailand and south-east Burma, this super-light bat lives in caves in colonies of up to 500 and it heads out to feed on insects ...
13th July 2017
‘Shazam’ for bats as smart technology is used in London park
... Natterer's bat – its broad wings enable it to fly slowly and prey on a wide variety ... snatching spiders from their webs! © Hugh Clark / The Bat Conservation Trust Automated smart detectors have been ...
30th June 2017
Earthquake emergency equipment used to help Britain's bats
... is now being employed to help the UK’s plummeting bat population. ... lose them? Not according to Joe Nunez-Mino from the Bat Conservation Trust , who argues that by eating pests, bats protect ...
24th August 2016
Bat populations threatened by roads
... failing. Researchers discovered more than 1000 bat fatalities were caused by collisions with cars. “There is ... The Habitats Directive makes it illegale to disturb a bat roost but this has not prevented the populations of rarer species, such ...
20th June 2016
Vampire bats donate food at risk of starvation
... A vampire bat’s habit of regurgitating some of its bloody stomach contents to ... many non-relatives in the past. Feeding non-kin expands a bat’s social network, making it more likely that it will itself be ... 7 things you never knew about the brown long-eared bat Mauritius fruit bats ...
15th February 2016
Where do bats go in the winter?
... Philip Briggs, Bat Conservation Trust ... drink and forage during milder spells. Licensed bat workers conduct surveys of hibernation sites such as caves, mines, tunnels ...
23rd December 2015
Mauritius fruit bats face government cull
... Home of the dodo now has rare and endemic fruit bat in its sights because of disputed impact on commercial fruit farming ... Mauritian Wildlife Foundation The Mauritius fruit bat is listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN ...
17th November 2015
What is echolocation?
... and can also avoid wires as fine as human hairs. As a bat closes in for the kill, it cranks up its calls to pinpoint the prey. To avoid being deafened by its own calls, a bat turns off its middle ear just before calling, restoring its hearing a split ...
17th November 2015
Halloween: 5 blood-sucking creatures
... Bat-tnail.jpg ... Bat-main.jpg A surprisingly (or ...
30th October 2015
Do bats touch anything during flight?
... adjustments in wing position that optimise flight control. Bat wings have a unique distribution of hair follicles and touch-sensitive ...
5th August 2015
How do bats navigate?
... bat_mauriceflynn_325.jpg Bat expert Kate Jones answers your wild question. ...
27th October 2014
7 things you never knew about the brown long-eared bat
... Discover fascinating facts about the brown long-eared bat. ... 1. Ear Ear The brown long-eared bat's ears are almost as long as its body, although, when at rest, it often ...
7th July 2014
Rodrigo MedellÃn: batting for bats
... Rodrigo stars in the new Natural World film The Bat Man of Mexico , which airs on 13 June at 9pm on BBC Two. And you can ... Magazine , on sale 2 July. If you missed The Bat Man of Mexico on TV, don’t forget you can still watch it on BBC ...
3rd July 2014
Understand mammal behaviour – part 4: pipistrelle bats
... bunch into small groups, again for defence or to follow a bat that found a good foraging area the previous night. Large colonies tend ...
2nd July 2013
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