Tag: Bats

Wind power – a threat to birds, bats, and insects?
A bird in an agricultural landscape in front of wind turbines: Local risks are weighed against global climate and biodiversity effects. ( © Canva Pro)
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Between wildlife conservation and climate protection: Does wind power harm birds, bats and insects?

Wind turbines are a key pillar of the energy transition. They generate electricity without burning fossil fuels and therefore help reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and curb climate change. During operation they produce neither CO₂ emissions nor air pollutants, require little water, and today rank among the most cost-effective forms of electricity

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Weihnachtsinsel-Zwergfledermaus
The Christmas Island pipistrelle was Australia's smallest bat and occurred exclusively on the remote Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. It had dark brown fur, hunted insects in flight, and showed no striking sexual dimorphism — males and females looked alike. (© Lindy Lumsden, verwendet mit freundlicher Genehmigung)
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Christmas Island pipistrelle – an avoidable extinction

In the middle of the Indian Ocean, around 350 kilometers south of Java, lies remote Christmas Island—an Australian external territory just 135 square kilometers in size. Despite its small size, it once harbored a remarkable diversity of endemic species found nowhere else on Earth. One of them was the Christmas

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Ectophylla alba
The Honduran white bat (Ectophylla alba) is one of the few known species of bats with white fur. It has similar behaviors to Bory's white bat. (© Charlie Jackson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
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Bory’s White Bat

“Small white bats” seek shelter in palm leaves The French naturalist and botanist Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent explored the mouth of the Rivière du Mât in November 1801, in what is now the municipality of Saint-Joseph in the southern part of the island of Réunion. He was studying red

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Pteralopex anceps verwandt mit P- pulchra Berg-Affengesichtflughund
The Bougainville monkey-faced flying fox (Pteralopex anceps) is a relative of the montane monkey-faced bats that also comes from the Solomon Islands. (© DeadMonkey8984, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
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Montane Monkey-faced Bat

Only one documented specimen Australian biologist Tim Flannery discovered the montane monkey-faced bat in 1990 during a study of the mammals of the South Pacific region. It was immediately clear to him that it was a previously unknown flying fox species. The striking red eyes, the black and white spotted

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