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Scientists Confirm Endangered Bats Are Migrating in Arizona for the First Time, Using DNA Clues Found in the Environment
Researchers and citizen scientists took samples of environmental DNA from saliva on backyard hummingbird feeders and agave ...
Arizona adds endangered bat to the list of night-flying creatures that frequent the state
Researchers analyzed saliva the nocturnal mammals leave behind when sipping nectar from plants and residential hummingbird ...
Endangered Mexican long-nosed bats now being tracked via "eDNA" using their saliva
Every spring, Mexican long-nosed bats traverse a lengthy migratory path north from Mexico into the southwestern U.S., ...
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Mexican long-nosed bats are no strangers to southeastern Arizona. The proof is in the saliva
Researchers say they now have a way to tell the endangered species apart from other bats by analyzing saliva the nocturnal mammals leave behind when sipping nectar from plants and residential ...
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An endangered bat species has been found in Arizona with the help of citizen scientists
Citizen scientists in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico voluntarily swabbed hummingbird feeders outside their homes for DNA left behind by migratory nectar-feeding bats. As the bats ...