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Bats.

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• Craseonycteridae
• Emballonuridae
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• Megadermatidae
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• Myzopodidae
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• Phyllostomidae
• Pteropodidae
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Resources in This Category

• Bat Atlas

  http://sres-associated.anu.edu.au/batatlas/
  Information and photographs of 'flying-foxes' in Australia.

• Bat cull “will not stop white-nose syndrome spreading”

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11878001
  The BBC reports on a study published in Conservation Biology.

• Bat killing WNS fungus confirmed in Arkansas

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23532862
  The BBC reports on the further spread of the fungus that causes White-Nose Syndrome.

• Bat Thematic Unit

  http://intergate.cccoe.k12.ca.us/bats/
  A thematic resource on bats for students, teachers, and anyone interested in flying mammals.

• Bats in Australia

  http://australianmuseum.net.au/Australian-bats
  Details of 90+ native species, with photos, ranges, roosts, diet and conservation status. Australian Museum Online.

• Brain Museum - Chiroptera

  http://brainmuseum.org/Specimens/chiroptera/
  Online resource of mammalian brains which covers 16 species of bat, some with photos and further information.

• Cold War bunkers offer bats refuge from killer disease

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22354517
  The BBC reports on plans to use cold war nuclear bunkers to safeguard bats from white-nose syndrome.

• Desert Bats

  http://www.desertusa.com/jan97/du_bats.html
  Includes color photos, scientific names, common names, description, behavior, range, habitats, and life cycle.

• How Bats Work

  http://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/bat.htm
  Illustrated guide to bats and how they help humans.

• Introduction to Chiroptera

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/eutheria/chiroptera.html
  Life history, ecology, fossil record, systematics, and morphology of bats.

• Living with Wildlife: Bats

  http://wdfw.wa.gov/living/bats.html
  The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife provides information on bats, their natural history and interactions with man.

• Neural Mechanisms of Vocal Control in Bats.

  http://www.mcmaster.ca/inabis98/brudzynski/schuller0511/four.html
  Research by Gerd Schuller aims to determine which brain structures are involved in eliciting or controlling motor reactions and behavioral patterns.

• North American Symposium on Bat Research

  http://www.nasbr.org/
  Scientific society which promotes the study of the biology of bats by holding an annual meeting of scientists, students, and the public from around the world.

• Order Chiroptera

  http://animaldiversity.org/site/accounts/information/Chiroptera.html
  Taxonomy of bats from the Animal Diversity Web.

• Plea for help spotting bat killer

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7779793.stm
  The BBC reports that bat groups and cavers across the UK have been asked to report suspected cases of an illness that has killed bats in the US.

• Rare bat on brink of UK extinction

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23519010
  The BBC reports that one of the UK's rarest mammals, the grey long-eared bat is in danger of disappearing from the country.

• Texas Bats

  http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/ordchiro.htm
  Full checklist of 32 species, with links to detailed species accounts.

• The Bats of Britain

  http://www.bio.bris.ac.uk/research/bats/britishbats/
  Photos and species accounts. Includes identification key.

• University of Bristol Bat Ecology and Bioacoustics Lab

  http://www.bio.bris.ac.uk/research/bats/
  Resources and research on the reproductive and foraging ecology of bats, echolocation, conservation, interactions between bats and moths, and bioacoustics.

• US publishes white-nose bat killer action plan

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13438594
  The BBC goes underground with US biologist Carl Herzog to video the damage.

• Warwickshire Bat Group

  http://warksbats.co.uk/
  Includes photographs and detailed information on all the bats found in the UK.

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