Bechstein's Bat was found to be breeding at Longleat (Mark Hows). The studies also found Greater Horseshoe and Lesser Horseshoe Bats, both of which have undergone drastic declines in Britain and are ...

Steve Marshall, principal bat ecologist at Cornwall Environmental Consultants, said: “We were delighted to see evidence of ...

The world's largest bat species play vital roles in their ecosystems, from seed dispersal to prey control. These megabats, ...

The Church of England spent decades protecting a serial child sex abuser within its ranks. This conspiracy of silence long ...

A building is being restored in West Sussex for what is thought to be the first breeding colony of a species of rare bat in the county. Britain's population of greater horseshoe bats was ...

Several of the rarest bat species in the UK have been identified at the Longleat Estate, famous for its safari park. A ...

Researchers from Japan have found that horseshoe bats exhibit rapid changes in vocalizations and behavior primarily in response to Doppler shifts. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

That is where museum collections can help. Dozens of specimens of horseshoe bats were spread across four natural history museums around the world when a group of researchers began reexamining how ...

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This is exactly what happened in 2002 when a horseshoe bat infected a civet with SARS, which then passed on the disease to human populations. But before we all start a bat witch hunt, let's take a ...

The chain of events that led to the worst pandemic in a century started with a tiny, insect-eating mammal with a mundane name, the intermediate horseshoe bat. The species is part of a family of ...