Europe’s largest bat colony during wintertime is situated in a cave in (Romania – the editor) Trascau Mountains (center-west) called ‘Huda Lui Papara’, where nine species of bats are hibernating, according to researches made by biologists of Cluj-Napoca.
President of the Sfinx Girda de Sus Speleological Association, Christian Ciubotarescu said in a news release that last [...]
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Europe’s largest bat colony during wintertime (?)
December 7, 2009 – 1:53 pm
A virus similar to Ebola attacks the bats in Spain
November 20, 2009 – 9:38 am
News extracted from THE PERIODICO.COM 30/10/2009 15:07 h NEW DISEASE
• The pathogen is present in the 27 species on the peninsula
A virus whose genetic sequence is quite homologous to the Ebola virus, which until now was restricted to certain African countries, have been found among the 27 species of bats live in caves of [...]
Killer birds bite off bat’s heads
September 14, 2009 – 8:20 am
Péter Estók of the Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology, Germany, first saw a bat being captured by a tit in a Hungarian cave in 1996. Ten years later, he and fellow bat ecologist Björn Siemers recorded 18 examples of pipistrelle bat predation by great tits, over the course of two winters in the same cave in the [...]