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News Articles: bats

A common noctule bat.

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  • Science

Bats catch a lift from storm winds on long-distance migrations

Migrating hundreds and hundreds of miles is hard work for the common noctule bat. But this European species makes its marathon journey a little bit easier by paying attention to the weather.

January 04, 2025
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By:
  • Jonathan Lambert
Conservation biologist Gliselle Marin carefully untangles a bat from a net in Belize during the annual Bat-a-thon. Her fanny pack is decorated with printed bats.

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  • Science

This scientist has a bat tat and earrings. She says there's a lot to learn from bats

Gliselle Marin joins the “Bat-a-thon,” a group of 80-some bat researchers who converge on Belize each year to study these winged mammals.

August 13, 2024
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
This northern ghost bat (<em>Diclidurus albus</em>) was a special, rare find for the bat scientists gathered in Belize. “It was magical,” says evolutionary biologist Jasmin Camacho.<br><br>

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  • Science

Bats are like riddles. The Bat-a-thon aims to solve them

It's the 16th Bat-a-thon in Belize. Researchers think the flying mammals can teach us about warding off pathogens and managing diabetes. They trap bats in nets, draw blood ... but no bats are harmed.

July 21, 2024
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Harlan Gough holds a recently collected tiger beetle on a tether.

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  • Research News

To escape hungry bats, these flying beetles create an ultrasound 'illusion'

A study of tiger beetles has found a possible explanation for why they produce ultrasound noises right before an echolocating bat swoops in for the kill.

May 22, 2024
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
When Australia's black flying foxes are well-fed, they tend to be healthy. A lack of food stresses the bats — and stress causes them to shed, or release, viruses into the environment.

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  • Global Health

How do we halt the next pandemic? Be kind to critters like bats, says a new paper

A team of scientists argue that new vaccines and treatments wouldn't be critical if humans could figure out how to stop viruses from spilling over from animals in the first place.

March 26, 2024
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
A field researcher holds a male bat that was trapped in an overhead net as part of an effort to find out how the animals pass Nipah virus to humans. The animal will be tested for the virus, examined and ultimately released.

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  • Global Health

Another Nipah outbreak in India: What do we know about this virus and how to stop it?

Nipah virus, known to spread from bats to human, has broken out in the state of Kerala. Here's what we know about the current cases and the ongoing efforts to quash this potentially fatal disease.

September 15, 2023
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By:
  • Kamala Thiagarajan and
  • Ari Daniel
A Mexican free-tailed bat emerges from a bat box mounted behind the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon recently.

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  • Science

How you can count bats in the name of science

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is asking everyday people to help by counting bats on summer evenings. 

May 17, 2023
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Researchers examine an evening bat while handling it for scientific measurements during a night of data collection on creek in Macon in 2015. The data collected that night is just one point in a just published seven year study of Georgia's bats.

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  • Environment

PHOTOS: Georgia's bat populations are crashing, but signs of hope emerge in some habitats

A study of Georgia’s bats describes which parts of the state provide refuge for at least one species in the face of the ongoing, cataclysmic crash of bat populations in some habitats.

April 21, 2023
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
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  • Global Health

You asked about bats, pets, immunity and other hot viral topics! We've got answers

In response to our series on spillover viruses, you had many questions: from the role of climate change to possible benefits. We turn the mic to you for a special edition of 'Hidden Viruses.'

March 25, 2023
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By:
  • Ari Daniel,
  • Michaeleen Doucleff,
  • and 1 more
Bats congregate in the Bat Cave in Queen Elizabeth National Park on August 24, 2018. Scientists placed GPS devices on some of the bats to determine flight patterns and how they transmit Marburg virus to humans. Approximately 50,000 bats dwell in the cave.

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  • Global Health

The Marburg outbreak in Equatorial Guinea is a concern — and a chance for progress

Marburg virus is hard to detect early on--and goes on to kill about half its victims. Researchers hope to work quickly during this outbreak to make progress on emerging vaccines and treatments.

February 17, 2023
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By:
  • Fran Kritz
A field researcher holds a male bat that was trapped in an overhead net as part of an effort to find out how the animals pass Nipah virus to humans. The animal will be tested for the virus, examined and ultimately released.

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  • Global Health

The Nipah virus has a kill rate of 70%. Bats carry it. But how does it jump to humans?

Nipah virus, which can rapidly infect and kill members of a community, is carried by bats. Exactly how does it cross over into humans? Researchers in Bangladesh are trying to find out.

February 02, 2023
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By:
  • Ari Daniel and
  • Rebecca Davis
A tricolored bat.

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  • News

Tricolored bat population at risk of endangerment in Georgia

A species of bat that can be found throughout the state of Georgia are tricolored bats. They are considered one of the smallest bats located along the east coast of the U.S., weighing an average of less than half an ounce.

January 31, 2023
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By:
  • Ambria Burton
A Mexican free-tailed bat hangs out in an incubator after getting some fluids.

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  • Animals

1,600 bats fell to the ground during Houston's cold snap. Here's how they were saved

After hundreds of Mexican free-tailed bats went into hypothermic shock during the city's recent cold snap, they lost their grip and fell. But they found a temporary home: the attic of Mary Warwick.

December 28, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The northern long-eared bat is the third bat species recommended for endangered status this year due to white-nose syndrome.

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  • National

Northern long-eared bat, devastated by a fungus, is now listed as endangered

The Biden administration declared the northern long-eared bat endangered on Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to save a species driven to the brink of extinction by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease.

November 29, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
The black flying fox is one of the bats in Australia that carries the Hendra virus — which sometimes spills over to horses, and humans, with devastating impact. Scientists are trying to figure out what triggers spillovers — and how to stop them.

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  • Global Health

An elegant way to stop deadly Hendra virus spillovers from bats to horses ... to us

New research points to a surprising way to stop spillovers of Hendra virus, which is harbored by bats. It's not often that it jumps to horses, then humans, but when it does, the result are brutal.

November 17, 2022
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
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