Four of the nine species of Adirondack bats belong to the genus Myotis, the mouse-eared bats. The little brown bat is the most abundant of the four, and is the common bat of the region. During the ...

It's important not to disturb hibernating bats. Shaking them will cause a loss of fat reserves they rely on to get to the end ...

Keen’s myotis is brown in color, darker above than below, and its fur is silky, not glossy like that of the little brown bat which it resembles. The ears of this species are long, narrow, and extend ...

But the most common types of bat are the little brown bat, the big brown bat, the pallid bat, the northern long-eared bat, ...

The new animals on the list include the little brown bat, barn owl, green sea turtle and Atlantic sturgeon. The announcement by the state Department of Environmental Protection was part of a ...

A year later, people began to report something peculiar: little brown bats flying outside nearby caves during daylight in the midst of winter. A little brown bat is a tiny creature, smaller than a ...

Did you know that Wisconsin is home to some of the largest aggregations of Little Brown Bats in North America and a significant proportion of the international population of this ...

After a decline of over 90 per cent in little brown bats and northern long-eared bats in Nova Scotia, researchers are hopeful the bat population is beginning to stabilize. A disease called white-nose ...

During winter, in northern Canada, little brown bats go into a form of hibernation called torpor and only need to breathe once every 90 minutes to stay alive. A single bat can consume one third of ...

Affected bat colonies have declined by as much as 99 percent — some even greater. Some species in parts of the Northeast, like the once-common little brown bat, are almost gone. Scientists predict the ...

Jammed into that spot is a little brown bat. This was dismaying as four days straight it remained wedged there. This wee thing is hibernating in a state of self-preservation called "torpor." ...

After a decline of over 90 per cent in little brown bats and northern long-eared bats in Nova Scotia, researchers are hopeful the bat population is beginning to stabilize. A disease called white ...