Picture: RICHARD AUSTIN
Showing posts with label bats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bats. Show all posts
Found on the Web
Underwater Aliens: The Beauty Down Below
The animals of the deep ocean might as well be from a different planet. Here are some beautiful images of the some of the strangest creatures on earth.
Deadly Bat Disease Spreading West
White-nose syndrome has killed more than a million bats in the United States. Read about the startling crisis that's threatening whole populations of these creatures of the night.
10 Humane Ways to Discipline Your Dog
Ten humane, and widely used, training techniques for dogs.
The animals of the deep ocean might as well be from a different planet. Here are some beautiful images of the some of the strangest creatures on earth.
Deadly Bat Disease Spreading West
White-nose syndrome has killed more than a million bats in the United States. Read about the startling crisis that's threatening whole populations of these creatures of the night.
10 Humane Ways to Discipline Your Dog
Ten humane, and widely used, training techniques for dogs.
The cutest bats in the world
The tiny White Bats of Honduras are among the cutest rodents on Earth.
The Honduran white bat is the smallest fruit-eating bat in the New World, and is found from eastern Honduras to western Panama. This species commonly roosts in tents made by biting along the large, central midrib of Heliconia or banana plant leaves. The wing membrane between the second and third fingers is translucent, so that the bats can fold their wings over their body and still watch for predators.
The natural tent protects the White Bats from rain and predators and they only take flight when their home is no longer safe.
The small bats live in colonies of up to six individuals, one male and his harem of females.
Photo credit: #1 #2
Orphaned bat epidemic in Australia
Torrential rain has brought chaos to Australia, and not just to the humans who live there.Australian Bat Clinic and Wildlife Trauma Centre director Trish Wimberley and her carers have helped save 130 orphaned bats on the Gold Coast in past weeks.
They saved 350 young bats during the 2008 storm season but this year think there's more going on than just wild weather.
Carers have visited several bat 'camps' on the coast in recent weeks to find four-week-old babies on the ground covered in maggots and fly eggs.
Trish said: 'They're coming down to feed on the ground. That makes them vulnerable. It's not a natural occurrence and shows there is trouble in the environment.
'Bats are a barometer to what is going on in the environment. They're our canaries down the coal mine'.
Source
Are cavers spreading lethal bat disease?
The white fungus that appears on bats' noses and wings — so-called white-nose syndrome — has killed more than a half-million bats over the past three winters, but scientists had not been able to figure out how the fungus got into the bat caves and why it spread.Now, they have big clue: Humans, specifically cavers, who "may be spreading the causative agent."
Source
Photo Credit: Nancy Heaslip, New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation
Little brown bats with white-nose syndrome, New York
300 flying foxes rescued in Australia
The future of a colony of fruit bats has been put at risk after hundreds of pups were abandoned by their mothers in heavy storms.More than 300 infant grey-headed flying foxes are being cared for at a bat hospital since they were left to fend for themselves in the last week.
Most are suffering from hypothermia and deydration, and many have been attacked by swarms of flies.
Source: Metro
Duuuuh
About 90 elementary school students in Montana have started a series of rabies shots after a parent let them touch a dead bat that was later confirmed to be diseased.
The mother of two students gave presentations in five classrooms and allowed the kids to touch the dead bat last week. She offered each student who touched the bat a sanitary wipe.
The exposed students will receive six shots of anti-rabies vaccine.
Source: AP
The mother of two students gave presentations in five classrooms and allowed the kids to touch the dead bat last week. She offered each student who touched the bat a sanitary wipe.
The exposed students will receive six shots of anti-rabies vaccine.
Source: AP
I wonder ...
I found this photo at My House Rabbit's Blog, but ...
I'm not so sure that those are rabbits. Don't the ears look kind of bat-ish?
And I wonder what the occasion was. Couldn't be Easter, everyone knows there's only ONE Easter Bunny!
I'm not so sure that those are rabbits. Don't the ears look kind of bat-ish?
And I wonder what the occasion was. Couldn't be Easter, everyone knows there's only ONE Easter Bunny!
Cute Baby Fruit Bats
Baby bats whose colony has been destroyed by poisonous ticks are being raised in a sanctuary in northern Queensland.
"Nonexistent" Flying Fox Discovered
This unusual species of flying fox was recently discovered in the Philippines not long after it was deemed not to exist.Jake Esselstyn, a biologist with the University of Kansas, was among a team of researchers that found the animal, a type of fruit bat, last year while surveying forest life on the island of Mindoro.
(via)
Watch out for rabid bats, Chicago health officials warn
People in the Chicago area already have to worry about West Nile virus and those mysterious mite bites. Now there is a new concern: rabid bats. Several bats with rabies have been found in the Chicago area this month.
Nine bats in suburban Cook County have tested positive for rabies this year, including three in the past week, according to the county public health department.
A 61-year-old Aurora woman was trying to remove a bat from her home Thursday when it bit her, department spokesman Tom Schlueter said. Officials tested the bat on Friday, with the results coming in Tuesday that it had rabies.
These results bring the tally to 59 bats testing positive for rabies this year statewide, Schlueter said.
Nine bats in suburban Cook County have tested positive for rabies this year, including three in the past week, according to the county public health department.
A 61-year-old Aurora woman was trying to remove a bat from her home Thursday when it bit her, department spokesman Tom Schlueter said. Officials tested the bat on Friday, with the results coming in Tuesday that it had rabies.
These results bring the tally to 59 bats testing positive for rabies this year statewide, Schlueter said.
Bizarre Horseshoe Bat Photographed for First Time
This bizarre-looking bat got rave reviews when it recently posed for the camera for the first time.
Scientists found the twisted-faced creature, called the Maclaud's horseshoe bat, while surveying the highland forests of Guinea in West Africa this spring.
German biologist Natalie Weber took this picture after finding 16 members of the species in a series of remote caves. The bat had never been photographed before and had not been seen in the wild in nearly 40 years.
The Maclaud's bat is one of about 70 known species of horseshoe bats, so named for their distinctive—some might say grotesque—facial features called noseleafs.
Scientists aren't certain what the skin flaps are for, but they're thought to aid in echolocation—the process bats use to navigate by emitting and receiving high-frequency sound waves.
Bat World
Bats are among the most beautiful and gentle animals on earth. They are vital to the ecosystem and enhance our lives in many ways. Insect eating bats eat millions of bugs nightly, and fruit bats bring us approximately 450 commercial products. Yet for all they do, bats are continually killed due to myths, superstition and fear. The life expectancy of a single bat exceeds 20 years, but slow birth rates limit their population growth. When just 5 bats are needlessly killed, a potential 100 years of animal life is destroyed.In a world where so many look away, Bat World Sanctuary is on the front line of activism to end the abuse and destruction of bats. We have been recognized as the world leader in bat rehabilitation for the past decade. Each year we rescue thousands of bats that might otherwise die. Lifetime sanctuary is given to non-releasable bats, including those that are orphaned, injured, confiscated from the illegal pet trade and retired from zoos and research facilities. Bat World Sanctuary was founded in 1994 and is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, all volunteer organization.
(via)
3,500 Lbs. of Bat Guano Found in Attic
An upstate New York couple didn't think a few bats in the attic were much of a problem when they were buying a house last summer.
Months later, they found out how wrong they were when they discovered more than a ton and a half of bat droppings up there.
Nick LaBoda and Jenna Caputo say a home inspector informed them about the bats. They called an exterminator, who told them to wait a while before removing the bats because the babies were too young to fly.
Then they forgot about the bats until they smelled a foul odor in January. When they checked the attic, they found dead bats and piles of guano.
An exterminator says hundreds of bats had been living in the attic, leaving behind 3,500 pounds of droppings.
It cost $25,000 to clean up the mess, and the couple's insurance company wouldn't cover it. They're fighting it out in court.
Months later, they found out how wrong they were when they discovered more than a ton and a half of bat droppings up there.
Nick LaBoda and Jenna Caputo say a home inspector informed them about the bats. They called an exterminator, who told them to wait a while before removing the bats because the babies were too young to fly.
Then they forgot about the bats until they smelled a foul odor in January. When they checked the attic, they found dead bats and piles of guano.
An exterminator says hundreds of bats had been living in the attic, leaving behind 3,500 pounds of droppings.
It cost $25,000 to clean up the mess, and the couple's insurance company wouldn't cover it. They're fighting it out in court.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
