Tag: Bats

A devastating fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome (WNS) is spreading among hibernating bats, leaving carnage and barren caves in its wake. Now, people can learn about the disease and...

A little brown bat in North Bend, Washington, has been confirmed to have white-nose syndrome (WNS), making it the farthest western case of the deadly bat disease that’s killed more...

Federally endangered Indiana bats need to find the best trees to roost in during the fall in order to maximize their weight gain and survive winter hibernation. In a recent...

Genetic and isotope detective work is revealing the mysteries of where some of the bat species most often killed by wind turbines come from. “These are an enigmatic species,” said...

White-nose syndrome doesn’t always kill bats. Though massive numbers of the flying mammals have been wiped out from the fungal disease in North America, many European species show a higher...

White-nose syndrome (WNS) and wind turbines have killed the largest number of bats in the world since 2000, according to a new study. “Many of the 1,300 species of bats...

For the first time, researchers have found that white-nose syndrome — a deadly disease that’s wiped out numerous bat populations — isn’t confined to Europe and North America; it’s also...

Following an eight-year study of bats in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, researchers were recently able to create a new generation of range maps that will help with...

When little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) infected with white nose syndrome are hibernating, their immune systems are still actively fighting, contrary to previous hypotheses, according to a recent study. Researchers...

Researchers studied the extent to which transmission of viruses between bat species around the world has occurred in the past 70 years and compared that to cross-species transmission among rodents....