For decades, Corey Tarwater and her research team have used mist nets by day to capture various species of tropical birds in ...

Ilha Grande is one of the most bat-diverse areas in the state of Rio de Janeiro, with 37 documented species. This accounts ...

The team captured two Furipterus horrens — a type of “thumbless bat” — marking the first time the species has ever been recorded in the Ecuadorian Andes or found outside the Amazon rainforest, ...

researchers spent the nighttime hours monitoring the nearly invisible mist nets they hung over creeks and streams. They were conducting a six-night bat survey in the lush cloud forests of the Rio ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto Throughout the cloud forests of the Ecuadorian Andes, researchers hung nearly invisible “mist” nets between the ... vulnerable bat species. Much of what is known ...