Seasonal variation in home range size of evening bats in an urban environment
''We successfully tracked 30 bats over the 3-year period and found a positive correlation between home range size and temperature.'' Journal of Mammalogy, Ellen M Hall, Victoria J Bennett. Published: 13 October 2021
Happy hatch day!
We see the owlet for the 1st time on 13th October 2021. This is the 4th episode in our Owl Breeding and Biology series - please share and enjoy! You can watch the ''Owl Cam Joburg'' live on our YouTube channel. The next few weeks are going to be very exiting as the owlets grow.
Organic pest control: Bats show us how
If a picture a worth a thousand words... what is a video worth? Bats eat up to 70% of their body weight in insects every night! This video of bats emerging from a bat bank over a sugar cane farm shows that bats are perfect for natural pest insect control on farms, stables and vineyards.
Bat aggregational response to pest caterpillar emergence
Scientific Reports, volume 11, Article number: 13634 (2021)
Russia’s bats are free of the virus that causes “Covid-19”
Middle East in 24: ''SARS-CoV-2 has not been found in bats in Russia. We tested samples from about two hundred bats, from Different types, with (RT-BCR) we were looking specifically for viruses very similar to (SARS-Cove-2), but we didn’t find anything.” [Photo from Middle East in 24]
Owls Online 2021
I can't believe that it is nearing the end of June and this is the first official newsletter of the year. 2021 is definitely flying by!
