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Wondering why there are bats in your backyard? Discover what attracts them and how to stay safe around these flying mammals.

The nectar-feeding bats will follow flowering plants so they won’t be here in the winter either. The lesser-long nosed bats migrate into Mexico like the Mexican free-tailed bats.

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Specifically, little brown bats carry two copies of the gene, and have high p53 activity, which can get rid of cancer cells during apoptosis, a biological process that eliminates unwanted cells.

And it had never been applied to nectar-feeding bats before, so it was pretty innovative,” said Faith Walker, director of genetics for NAU’s Species from Feces team, which analyzed the bat DNA.

Nectar-feeding lesser long-nosed bats are attracted to a hummingbird feeder during a citizen science bat migration monitoring project in southern Arizona (2013) ...

When it comes to bats, there are superheroes … and then there are SUPERHEROES. Take Glossophaga mutica — a kind of nectar feeding bat the color of milk chocolate that’s found in the Americas.

But nectar bats “go beyond what we know is survivable for other types of mammals,” she say — and somehow don’t get sick. Unlike the fruit bats that can “rapidly lower their blood glucose with insulin, ...