New Area of Importance for Bat Conservation (AICOM) in Honduras

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Tagged areas of importance, bat conservation, bats, Chiroptera, ecology, ecosystems, Latin America, mammals, nature conservation, subterranean, Subterranean Biology, subterranean fauna, subterranean species, wildlife protectionLeave a comment

March 24, 2020

The recognition of the “Ceguaca, la Mujer de los Juncos” locality comes as a result of research work – published last year in Subterranean Biology – which produced the first checklist of bats for Santa Bárbara Guest blog post by Eduardo Javier Ordoñez-Trejo and Manfredo Alejandro Turcios-Casco Bat populations are threatened due to fragmentation and […]

First description and video of a rainbow boa preying on a vampire bat in a cave in Ecuador

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October 4, 2016

While snakes are well-known enemies to bats, their preying on the winged mammals has hardly been recorded. Furthermore, no bat as big and heavy as the common vampire, has been described being killed and eaten prior to the present study, published in the open access journal Subterranean Biology. The study, where scientists, led by Sarah […]