While bats are ecologically important, they can pose a danger to humans when they’re in our living spaces. Bats can carry a specific strain of rabies — a fatal disease for humans. During bat roosting ...

The use of mist nets is the most widespread technique to capture bats; however, no study has compared if the type of ground-level mist net used during sampling affects bat captures. We sampled bats ...

North Carolina biologists say bats may be in your home, and time is ticking to safely get them out. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission says bats hibernate or migrate south during the ...

Corey Tarwater (third, from left), an associate professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Zoology and Physiology, shows members of the bat research team from the Smithsonian Tropical ...

STE. GENEVIEVE – — The third walk back into the woods to check the mist nets proved the charm. An eastern red bat was tangled in the fine mesh of the net stretched over a trail, and a big brown bat ...