Bat Chat with Nerdy-Bat-Lady, Emily Stanford & Emma Reynolds

[@franciscoescobar3093]

Do bats in the tropics use bat houses?

[@BatBnB]

That's a great question! Bats are very diverse and live in a variety of habitats. Traditional wooden bat houses like the ones we make are ideal for most colony-dwelling temperate bats like the Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus) and the Big Brown Bats (Eptesicus fuscus). It depends heavily on which bat species are present in the country, and more research needs to be done. So far, replicated hollow trees are the main artificial roost style that has been tested by neotropical scientists. Detlev Kelm and colleagues at the University of Erlangen-Nuremburg pioneered this technique in Costa Rica (BATS, Summer 2008). They built simple boxes about 6 feet (2 meters) tall and 2 feet (90 centimeters) wide and installed them on the ground in forest fragments. Within weeks, the roosts attracted 10 species of leaf-nosed bats. Please see this link for more details! www.batcon.org/article/designing-homes-for-tropical-bats/ I hope this information helps. :)

[@franciscoescobar3093]

@@BatBnB Thanks for your answer.

[@BatBnB]

@@franciscoescobar3093 Happy to help :)

[@knyggaplease1222]

Can you re-upload this without the background music? It's super interesting, but the speech is nearly unintelligible, basically drowned out in the mix.