Bat numbers – collected from 6000 hibernation sites in nine European countries – have increased by 43 per cent between 1993 and 2011, according to a new report by the European Environment ...

Call it a comeback. After a prolonged decline, populations of several bat species are on the rise, according to a new report by the European Environment Agency. The largest-yet study of European ...

In fact, the European strain was even more virulent, taking its first victim 17 days before the North American version killed a bat. It also wiped out that arm of the experiment 13 days earlier ...

Just as differences in song can be used to distinguish one bird species from another, the pips and squeaks bats use to find prey can be used to identify different species of bat. Now, for the ...

For species with lower reproduction rates and a limited migratory potential of the young -- the majority of European bat species -- the future might not look as favourable when facing continuing ...

It contains a database of 1,350 calls from 34 separate species of European bats. These call recordings were sourced from EchoBank, a global library of over 200,000 bat calls.

A species of tiny bats has been decimated due to white-nose syndrome caused by a fungus. The fungus is believed to have been brought to the United States from Europe.

Determinants of defence strategies of a hibernating European bat species towards the fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans. Developmental & Comparative Immunology , 2021; 119: 104017 DOI ...

The same fungal species wiping out hibernating American bats also strikes their European kin — although it doesn’t kill them. But that’s not because the European strain of the fungus that ...