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A new study released by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research indicates that HALF of the U.S. corn crop could vanish by 2100 without efficient reductions in greenhouse gases. Bats do their part by feasting on corn pests, saving farmers more than $1 billion a year in crop damage around the world.
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Our featured member for this week's #ThankYouThursday is Laurie Brown of San Antonio, TX!
Why did you join BCI?
I love BCI’s mission and commitment to conservation. I am thankful that they allow volunteers to donate service to directly help save and preserve a natural wonder like Bracken Cave. Each time we go it is an adventure.
What is your occupation?
I am the education manager for volunteer and guest encounter at the San Antonio Zoo. I manage the zoo’s volunteer program, butterfly house, terrestrial invertebrate collection, interpretation and giraffe feeding. Our staff and volunteers spend 100s of hours each year talking to guests about the benefits of bats and care and fostering a respect for all living things.
How did your first become interested in bats?
From a young age I was introduced to my 1st bat at a the Houston Zoo. (They had vampire bats which were just amazing. There is NOTHING like seeing a bats face up close and they are soooo darn cute!) After that I spent tons of time pestering my parents to take detours on trips to see bat flights. In my childhood we visited the Congress Ave Bridge in Austin, the flight at old tunnel and probably every hole in a ground where a bat popped out but most stunning of all was the Carlsbad Caverns New Mexico (until Bracken of course).
Do you have any hobbies?
I run a embroidery business with my sister where we make embroidered artwork of rare and unusual animals. We use some of the proceeds to donate towards animal conservation like BCI. www.spiderstitches.com. I love gardening, hiking, sculpture, painting, drawing, visiting state and national parks, volunteering and anything that has to deal with bugs and pugs.
Join us today to ensure a future for bat conservation!
http://www.batcon.org/join
Congratulations to our February winner of a Katz Coffee Bat City Blend pack! You can enter to win and learn more about bats at the same time by signing up for our free Bat Chat monthly e-newsletter!
Visit: batcon.org/batcoffee
Roboticists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Caltech have just built a lightweight robot inspired by bats. Since bat flight is described as the 'holy grail of aerial robotics', researchers hope to be able to build upon this design for future applications such as wildlife surveillance, search and rescue, and to monitor construction sites.
Can't find time to build your own bat robot?
No worries! BCI has you covered with our new batty robot coloring page: http://www.batcon.org/clockworkbat
Holy Chiroptera, Batman!
Join Bat Conservation International as we embrace our inner #batman.
Learn more about our nocturnal neighbors at : http://www.batcon.org
Win over the love of your life this Valentine's Day with this beautiful watercolor card from our friends at BatGoods.com
Harvard University epidemiologist Kate Langwig and her team (including BCI's own Winifred Frick) recently observed an interesting development in the little brown bat populations of New York. In areas where the White-nose Syndrome fungus has been around for awhile, little brown bats seem to have found a way to limit the disease damage.
After a successful night of hunting Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) return to Bracken Cave. However, these speedy flyers will sometimes catch the attention of nearby predators, like hawks, who hope to snag a tasty snack for themselves.
The greater bulldog bat (Noctilio leporinus) is a master fisherman. The bat will use echolocation to detect fish near the surface of the water before swooping down to grab its prey with specially designed claws.
What is this greater bulldog bat thinking? Tell us for this week's #SillySaturday
No, those aren’t stars! It’s a vortex of Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) emerging from their summer home. Scientists are now using thermal imaging to visualize Bracken Cave in a new light!
Bat Conservation International udostępnił(a) post użytkownika Dave Waldien.
From Dave Waldien, BCI's Senior Director of Global Conservation:
Our final night of work in Fiji. We captured 30 Fijian free-tailed bats from Nakanacagi Cave, collected guano samples for diet studies and wing biopsies for genetic studies.
We also light-tagged a number of the bats and were able to get the FIRST known recordings with Wildlife Acoustics, Inc. EchometerTouch....
As the expedition comes to an end, I want to thank everyone who has contributed so much to this trip and the Fiji Bat Conservation Initiative. NatureFiji-MareqetiViti #universityoftheSouthPacific #NationalTrustofFiji Rainforest Trust Disney Conservation Fund #MohammadBinZayed #Woodtigerfund, Batgoods.com , and many others.
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Our final night if work in Fiji. We captured 30 Fijian free-tailed bats from Nakanacagi Cave, collected guano samples for diet studies and wing biopsies for gen...etic studies.
We also light-tagged a number of the bats and were able to get the FIRST known recordings with #WildlifeAcoustics EchometerTouch.
As the expedition comes to an end, I want to thank everyone who has contributed so much to this trip and the Fiji Bat Conservation Initiave. #NatureFijiMareqetiViti #universityoftheSouthPacific #NationalTrustofFiji #RainforestTrust #DisneyConservationFund #MohammadBinZayed #WoodtigerFund #BatGoods many others. #BatConservationInternational
Conserving the world's bats and their ecosystems to ensure a healthy planet. www.batcon.org
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