bats

With the respiratory season around the corner many Montanans are getting their annual flu shot, but humans aren’t the only ones getting their vaccines ahead of the winter. Biologists are trying to protect bats from a deadly disease.

Instead of slipping on a cloak, two species of moths rely on the unique shape of the scales that cover their wings to go undetected by bats.

Montana wildlife officials have detected a fungus that causes a deadly bat disease in at least six counties.

Bats are wonderful, mysterious creatures: they swoop gracefully through the night, and sometimes through our nightmares. We fear what we don't understand,…

A fungus that has killed millions of bats in the eastern and central parts of the U.S. is now spreading across the West. Biologists recently detected it...

On summer evenings, when darkness falls and most winged predators have called it quits for the day, bats awaken from their daytime slumber to rule the…

"Bat Hearing," written by Erick Greene, read by Caroline Kurtz."Most people know that bats are able to perceive their surroundings using ultra high…

Bat biologists are in a race against time. A fungal disease called White Nose Syndrome is killing bats by the millions.Regional biologists are scrambling…

A fungal disease is wiping-out bats by the millions and it's spreading west.Bat biologists gathered this summer in British Columbia's Flathead River…

Where bats hibernate, how warm or cold, and how dry or damp the environment is, are questions being asked as researchers and recreationists explore…