By SJ Puechmaille (Researcher). 'All' about #Bats, incl. #ecology, #phylogeny, #echolocation, #diseases, #morphology, #monitoring, #conservation, #research, etc
Joined January 2020
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All about bats retweeted
8 Jun 2022
For 250 million years, pollinators have been the planet’s secret agents for sustaining terrestrial life on Earth and many people ignore that over 500 plant species rely on bats to pollinate their flowers. This is a lesser long-nosed bat after a busy night ow.ly/2NgY50z5enQ
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9 Jun 2022
While the Seychelles flying fox does have blonde fur, this little fella is covered in pollen, an all-natural seasonal touch that will benefit the flora it visits. This fruit-moncher will also sow seeds on the forest floor by pooping them out as it flies.
📷Dr. Isabella Mandl
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All about bats retweeted
13 Apr 2022
Check out these cute paper bats! Lots of detail!
13 Apr 2022
A Collection of #Paper #Sculptures Studies the Wild Diversity of 88 Different #Bats. #JuanNicolásElizalde, #Guardabosques, began the series in 2019 after discovering variances in the animals’ ear shapes, fur patterns, & other characteristics thisiscolossal.com/2022/04/g…
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All about bats retweeted
28 Apr 2022
possibly the cutest ever rendition of a bat, england, 13th century
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All about bats retweeted
15 Mar 2022
While #bats still hibernate inside Nietoperek underground system, let's see if you are able to identify how many species are in this cluster
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#BatConservation #BatMonitoring #CitizenScience
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All about bats retweeted
25 Feb 2022
Our thoughts are with our bat conservation friends at the Ukrainian Bat Rehabilitation Centre during this incredibly dangerous and difficult time. Find out about their work here bat-kharkov.in.ua/en/
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All about bats retweeted
13 Feb 2022
It's always satisfying to find one of these beauties. We have two species in Piedmont, very similar to each other and usually forming mixed colonies.
🦇 Large Myotis (Myotis myotis / Myotis blythii)
#bats #hibernation #winter #cave #monitoring #wildlife #conservation
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All about bats retweeted
15 Feb 2022
Recharging energy with an amazing weekend of bat hibernation monitoring in Eastern Serbia caves 🤩
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All about bats retweeted
11 Feb 2022
Recently sequenced!
The Saccopteryx Bilineata is a remarkable vocal learner. Their vocal repertoire has many vocalisation types that are produced in different behavioural contexts. Did you know that pups even go through a babbling phase during song acquisition? 🦇🧬
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8 Feb 2022
Going down 90 meters below ground level in a vertical cave to count an amazing cluster of Mediterranean horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus euryale, France, Occitanie). That is sometimes what it take to do hibernacula counts!
#bats #Chiroptera
ALT Rhinolophus euryale, France, Occitanie
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4 Feb 2022
The full story and etimologic origin. The literal translation of "chauve-souris" is 'bald' 'mouse'. Why bald? It comes from the Gaulish 'kawa sorix' meaning 'mouse owl' but the word 'kawa' has been misunderstood and changed over time to 'calva' meaning bald!
12 Sep 2021
English: "Bat"
French: "Chauve-souris" (translation: 'shaved' 'mouse')
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All about bats retweeted
2 Feb 2022
Mutual Attraction: W. A. Ranches Investigates How Bats and Cattle Can Help Each Other arch-magazine.ucalgary.ca/ne… #BatsAndCows #AlbertaBats #Bats
ALT Acoustic sampling station for bats and insects at WA Ranches.
ALT Little Brown Myotis (photo by Jason Headley)
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1 Feb 2022
Hibernation count! Great to see #bats again. Miniopterus schreibersii can form quite tight clusters that are classically counted on photos (more reliable). If you estimate without counting (i.e. first impression), how many bats do you think there are here?
#Chiroptera #Monitoring
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2 Feb 2022
It can be very challenging to visually estimate numbers. The average of the 7 estimates is 206 while counting on the picture gives 158 individuals (maybe 159; green dot). That being said, counting on pictures is not always super easy either as some individuals can be hidden under
2 Feb 2022
It can be very challenging to visually estimate numbers. The average of the 7 estimates is 206 while counting on the picture gives 158 individuals (maybe 159; green dot). That being said, counting on pictures is not always super easy either as some individuals can be hidden under
1 Feb 2022
Hibernation count! Great to see #bats again. Miniopterus schreibersii can form quite tight clusters that are classically counted on photos (more reliable). If you estimate without counting (i.e. first impression), how many bats do you think there are here?
#Chiroptera #Monitoring
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All about bats retweeted
25 Jan 2022
Are bats special viral reservoirs? A new milestone study by @roryjgibb et al. demonstrate that host-level viral diversity in wild mammals is unstable and biased. No data are particularly supporting #bats as 'special' #viral reservoir. A thread. 1/12
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2021.04…
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25 Jan 2022
Are bats special viral reservoirs? A new milestone study by @roryjgibb et al. demonstrate that host-level viral diversity in wild mammals is unstable and biased. No data are particularly supporting #bats as 'special' #viral reservoir. A thread. 1/12
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2021.04…
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"Because current patterns of host-level viral richness represent an unstable and biased snapshot of the mammal virome, ..." 11/12
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25 Jan 2022
"... inference from host-virus association data needs to be carefully qualified and may not by itself be a comprehensive foundation for setting future agendas on viral zoonosis research or One Health policy". 12/12=1
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