Bats
Florida Department of Health in Bay County Reminds Residents and Visitors to Avoid Contact with Bats
Panama City, Fla. – The Florida Department of Health in Bay County (DOH-Bay) reminds all residents and visitors to avoid contact with bats. Bats can spread rabies. Rabies is a fatal viral infection of the nervous system that is spread from animal to animal or animal to human by bite, scratch, or contact between infected …
WHO team arrives in Wuhan to investigate pandemic origins
WUHAN, China (AP) — A global team of researchers arrived Thursday in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic was first detected to conduct a politically sensitive investigation into its origins amid uncertainty about whether Beijing might try to prevent embarrassing discoveries. The 10-member team sent to Wuhan by the World Health Organization was approved …
Stoddard tracking station technology can zero in on butterflies, bats | Environment
The first of an eventual network of 50 wildlife tracking stations across New England is now in southwestern New Hampshire, allowing scientists and conservation agencies to track the movements of tagged birds, bats and migratory insects. The station was erected last month in Stoddard on the 515-acre Granite Lake Headwaters property of the Harris Center …
Disease transmission – Bats spread viruses | Science and technology
Apr 18th 2020 Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hub WHICH ANIMAL SARS–CoV-2 leapt from to infect human beings remains …
Vampire bats ‘French kiss with blood’ to form lasting bonds
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Vampire bats are actually rather friendly – to each other at least Vampire bats establish friendships by sharing regurgitated blood with their neighbours in a “kind of horrifying French kiss”, a new study says. Researchers observing the mammals said their sharing behaviours appeared to be an important aspect of …
Endangered bats: The manicure helping to save a species
Image copyright ZSL Image caption The Cuban greater funnel-eared bat (Natalus primus) has only one known home in the world One of the world’s rarest bats is now confined to a single cave in Western Cuba with less than 750 remaining, according to a population survey. Scientists are highlighting the plight of the animal, saying …
An ultra-violent MS-13 group entered the U.S., then stalked L.A. with blades and bats
One by one, the victims were lured to remote locations: an abandoned building in downtown Los Angeles, an empty rooftop in Hollywood, a quiet park in the San Fernando Valley. Each was accused of a transgression against the notorious MS-13 street gang. Each would meet their end in a manner federal investigators described as “medieval.” …
Bats benefit from protected farmland hedgerows
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Undisturbed hedgerows provide an important habitat for numerous bat species and their insect prey Leaving hedgerows untouched can offer an important lifeline for night-time biodiversity, such as bats. A study says schemes designed to make farming more wildlife-friendly often failed to offer any real benefits. Populations of insect-eating bats …
