North Dakota sees first cases of white-nose syndrome
North Dakota wildlife officials say a group of bats there died of white-nose syndrome, the first known cases in the state. The little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) ...
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How bats live with coronaviruses
Bats have evolved an intrinsic immunity to coronaviruses that stops them from getting sick, though they still carry the disease. New research shows that the ...
Amid pandemic, bat biologists change course
COVID-19 has affected everyone, and wildlifers are no exception. In this series, TWS is looking at challenges facing the profession due to the pandemic. Biologists ...
NIH cancels grant for bat research in China
The National Institutes of Health has abruptly canceled a grant supporting research in China on how coronaviruses move from bats to humans. Research scientists are ...
Researchers discover four new bat species
Researchers have announced the discovery of at least four new species of bats. The study — in a special issue of the journal ZooKeys focused on the coronavirus ...
‘Deep evolutionary history’ binds bats and coronaviruses
Bats and coronaviruses have been evolving together for millions of years, researchers have found, resulting different strains in different groups of bats around the ...
Close human-wildlife contact means more possible disease spread
Habitat degradation, wildlife exploitation and wildlife adaptation to anthropogenic resources all put animals in closer contact with people, which researchers say ...
JWM: Sniffing out bird and bat mortalities at turbines
Detecting wildlife deaths at wind turbines isn’t an easy job. Researcher Shawn Smallwood had been at it for 20 years, and he felt humans missed so many carcasses, ...
Surviving summer allows white-nose fungus to become deadlier
The fungus that causes white-nose syndrome doesn’t decay in North American caves during the summer the way it does in Europe and Asia, researchers found, allowing ...
Some bats are adapting to white-nose syndrome, study finds
Some bats are developing adaptations to white-nose syndrome that allow them to survive the deadly disease, according to a recent study. Comparing little brown bats ...