monica_b1998Bat deaths over the last two decades have cost American taxpayers in lost crops, higher taxes, and pricier bonds
TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨🦇🍼 A six year old Livingston fruit #bat recently gave birth while hanging from her thumbs with her pup hanging from just the umbilical cord.
The 2024 event at the #Northumberland #Zoo marked the first time the birth of this #endangered #animal was caught on camera. With only 1,200 remaining in the wild, these are among the rarest #bats in the world.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/livingston-fruit-bat-birth-video
#animals #babies #england #uk #wildlife #conservation #nature #science #biology #zoology #mammals #africa #islands #ecology #environment #tksst #video
Blackland Prairie Chapter TMN🦇 Discover the "Music of the Night" at Hagerman NWR Join the Friends of Hagerman on May 14 for a 🦇Bat Monitoring Workshop by Dr. Bryon Clark! Learn to identify local species and see bioacoustics tech in action. ✨#DrBryonClark #HagermanNWR #bats #blacklandprairie #blacklandprairiechapter
https://txmn.org/bptmn/%f0%9f%a6%87-discover-the-music-of-the-night-at-hagerman-nwr/
Popular Science Homepage [Unofficial]Birds avoid wind turbines painted like venomous snakes
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/environment/birds-avoid-wind-turbine-snake-colors/
Rewilding Magazine"What’s good for #bats and #beetles is also good for trees, soil, water availability and carbon sequestration.
"Aside from improving the health of Earth, promoting more life means more twittering #birds during the day and more glowing #fireflies at night. Yes, please!"
#rewilding #gardening #ecology #climatechange
https://www.rewildingmag.com/5-ways-to-boost-biodiversity-in-your-yard/
NororeEffects of nominal 2700 K amber LED with a blue cut filter and 4000 K white LED on nightly activity of light-naïve New Zealand long-tailed bats (Chalinolobus tuberculatus) | Mammalian Biology | Springer Nature Link
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42991-026-00590-7
Effects of nominal 2700 K amber LED with a blue cut filter and 4000 K white LED on nightly activity of light-naïve New Zealand long-tailed bats (Chalinolobus tuberculatus) - Mammalian Biology
Artificial lighting, particularly blue-rich light emitted by white light-emitting diodes (LEDs), can have a greater impact on bat foraging and commuting behaviours than light with reduced blue wavelengths. We investigated whether blue-filtered, amber LEDs are less aversive to New Zealand long-tailed bats (Chalinolobus tuberculatus). The effects of a nominal 2700 K LED fitted with a blue-cut filter (emitted CCT c. 2344 K; hereafter amber light) and a 4000 K white LED (emitted CCT c. 3924 K) were tested on a light-naïve population in the central North Island, Aotearoa New Zealand. Lighting treatments (dark control, amber, and white light) were alternated in four-night blocks over six weeks, with lights operating from 19:00–07:00. This schedule ensured that lights were already on an hour before sunset and remained on for an hour after sunrise, creating a gradual rather than abrupt change in lighting conditions. Each site experienced all three treatments at different times to control for temporal and spatial effects. We monitored nightly bat activity, measured as the number of call sequences recorded under each lighting condition. Bat activity was highest on dark control nights, intermediate on amber-lit nights, and lowest on white-lit nights. Bat activity under amber lighting (estimated marginal mean ± SE: 3.83 ± 1.08 passes/night) was higher than under white lighting (2.67 ± 0.52 passes/night), but this difference was not statistically significant. Activity under dark conditions (6.12 ± 0.65 passes/night) was significantly greater than under white light, but did not differ significantly from amber light. This indicates that white light is locally aversive to light-naïve C. tuberculatus, while amber light may be somewhat less disruptive but still not equivalent to darkness. Further investigation of lighting spectra is needed to better balance human lighting needs with the conservation of light-sensitive wildlife such as C. tuberculatus.
Takako 🐀I’ll be traveling in style now. 😎🦇✨ Stuck the https://batcon.org sticker on my suitcase!
Vanessa RojasNew paper out! 🦇
We published data from 2015 to serve as a baseline from that time, before white-nose syndrome had spread across the continent. 194 North American bat experts assessed 21 threat categories. Pathogens and microbes ranked as the biggest threat across most regions. Habitat loss related threats also ranked high. Will be interesting to see what may change/stay the same in the future.
edit: Fixed link should give access
https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1n49D1R~eeCY3
JoyCompilation of Detox Doodles!
These animals are from my 100-day journey to swap scrolling for sketching: https://www.joyousjoyness.com/pages/detox-doodles
Gotta love cows, opossums (oops misspelled), seals, owls, raccoons (trash pandas) and elephant shrews!
#art #bats #cow #bird #owl #opossum #raccoon #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart #InkArt
S.v. N.SönmezBluesky: Tayland'da batlarda yeni virüs tespiti, insan bağlantısı henüz yoktu. Bilim insanları, batların genomlarını izleyerek zoonotik riskleri çözmeye çalışıyor. Genişleyen çevre-bat bağları, yerleşim yerlerine yakın bölgelerdeki insan aktivitelerini etkileyebilir. Daha fazla bilgi için takipte kalın.
🚩 #Bats #COVID19 #Thailand #HealthResearch #Zoonosis #PublicHealth
