Ever-courteous and vulnerable bats

Bats are in the news twice this week for two very different reasons: more has been revealed about their endearing social graces, and more is now understood about their unique vulnerability to windmills. University of Maryland researchers announce in this week’s issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that big brown bats [...]

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Owl droppings — more than meets the eye

Humans build fences. Dogs water fire hydrants. And new evidence is suggesting the owls might use their own feces to demarcate their territories.  The new finding, reported in the August 20 issue of the journal PLoS ONE, hasn’t been reported very widely for the same reason my ever-astute editors at National Geographic News declined to publish [...]

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