Sentences with phrase «for hibernating bats»

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The biologists had been conducting winter surveys throughout the Canadian province for two years, monitoring the health of hibernating bats.

Last year, data emerged indicating the same fungus inhabits caves and other sites where bats hibernate in Europe — and probably has been part of their ecosystems for hundreds of years, if not millennia.

Named for the white fuzz that appears on the nose, wings and tail, the disease frequently causes hibernating bats to wake from the inert state, according to the Wisconsin officials.

Yet researchers have also found carcasses of cave - hibernating bats, including the little brown bat and the northern long - eared myotis — two species that have been devastated by the fungal disease white nose syndrome and that are now being considered for protection under the Endangered Species Act.

For example, the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus), which is smaller than a thumb, hibernates in caves around 40 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit with 90 percent humidity, an ideal setting for the fungus, according to laboratory tesFor example, the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus), which is smaller than a thumb, hibernates in caves around 40 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit with 90 percent humidity, an ideal setting for the fungus, according to laboratory tesfor the fungus, according to laboratory tests.

For more on bats and white nose syndrome, see Merlin D. Tuttle's book America's Neighborhood Bats, David Quammen's article «Bat Crash» in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic, the Fort Collins Science Center website on «White - Nose Syndrome Threatens the Survival of Hibernating Bats in North America,» the National Wildlife Health Center's website on «White - Nose Syndrome (WNS),» or Wikipedia's articles on «White nose syndrome» or on the fungus genus «Geomybats and white nose syndrome, see Merlin D. Tuttle's book America's Neighborhood Bats, David Quammen's article «Bat Crash» in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic, the Fort Collins Science Center website on «White - Nose Syndrome Threatens the Survival of Hibernating Bats in North America,» the National Wildlife Health Center's website on «White - Nose Syndrome (WNS),» or Wikipedia's articles on «White nose syndrome» or on the fungus genus «GeomyBats, David Quammen's article «Bat Crash» in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic, the Fort Collins Science Center website on «White - Nose Syndrome Threatens the Survival of Hibernating Bats in North America,» the National Wildlife Health Center's website on «White - Nose Syndrome (WNS),» or Wikipedia's articles on «White nose syndrome» or on the fungus genus «GeomyBats in North America,» the National Wildlife Health Center's website on «White - Nose Syndrome (WNS),» or Wikipedia's articles on «White nose syndrome» or on the fungus genus «Geomyces.

From these tests, we will identify candidate strains for testing on hibernating bats in controlled laboratory infection trials.

This information is useful for understanding factors that contribute to infection and mortality from the disease in hibernating bats.

The purpose of her research is to support data - driven surveillance strategies and management options for mitigating impacts of WNS on hibernating bat populations.

Animals like bats and some rodent species, which do hibernate, enter into a «deep sleep mode» which could last sometimes for months.