"MDC invites the public to a Bat Mist Netting program, Friday, Oct. 11, from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. at Emmenegger Nature Park in Kirkwood," the department said on its website. "The event is free and ...

Corey Tarwater (third, from left), an associate professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Zoology and Physiology, shows members of the bat research team from the Smithsonian Tropical ...

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, ...

Ilha Grande is one of the most bat-diverse areas in the state of Rio de Janeiro, with 37 documented species. This accounts for 19.9 percent of all known bat species in Brazil, 37.8 percent of those in ...

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 ...

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 ...