Alberta Bats

Wildlife Conservation Society Canada - Alberta Community Bat Program 

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🦇As we bid good-bye to another #BatAppreciationDay we leave you with "The Bat Blessing" and hope that you find time to appreciate bats everyday. #BatsNeedFriends

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Take the bat pledge! Conservation starts with education. Learn and share your bat facts. People need to know!

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Baturday 🦇:

Edward Saidi Tingatinga (Tanzania, 1932-1972) Bat in a Tree, 1971 Enamel on board, 62 x 61 cm

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Resharing for International #BatAppreciationDay 🦇

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This is beautiful!

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🦇✨ Il 17 aprile si celebra la Giornata dell’Apprezzamento dei Pipistrelli… e no, non è una festa da film horror! Scopri perché questi piccoli acrobati notturni sono supereroi della natura (e anche un po’ chic). Nuovo articolo online! #BatAppreciationDay #Pipistrelli #NatureLovers #CuriositàChic #PerfettamenteChic #17Aprile #WildlifeLove

Giornata dell’Apprezzamento dei Pipistrelli

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Hooray for the Pipistrelli!!

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Its #BatAppreciationDay so please appreciate this awesome 19th century Japanese kosode decorated with embroidered lucky bats, photographed in 2019 at The Life of Animals in Japanese Art exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in DC:

Kosode with Bats Japan, Edo - Meiji periods, 19th century silk twill, paste-resist dyed, embroidery, 67⅜ × 48⅞ in. National Museum of Japanese History, Chiba Prefecture

“In the West, bats - nocturnal in habit and denizens of dark places tend to be viewed as unlucky, but in China they have long been considered an auspicious motif (one of the characters used to write the word "bat" is a homonym for good fortune). The Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjüro VII (1791-1859) used bat motifs in his costumes, and the perception of these animals as a chic design element spread rapidly throughout Japan in the nineteenth century. Here a great number of them are arranged in right-left symmetry from the base of the collar to the hem.”

The above info is from the official exhibition catalog - this bat kosode is on p. 124:

The Life of Animals in Japanese Art (2019)

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Resharing for International #BatAppreciationDay 🦇

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Yes please.

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It’s #BatAppreciationDay! Here’s Plate 67 from Ernst Haeckel’s Art Forms of Nature (1904). Focusing mainly on marine animals, the bat is one of the only mammals to feature in the book: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/ernst-haeckel-s-bats-1904 #bats #onthisday #otd

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Appreciate him!!

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Happy #BatAppreciationDay - April 17th! Did you know that the Latin name for Silver-haired Bat is Lasionycteris noctivagans (which means "hairy-tailed night-wanderer"). Wander-well little Silver!

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Ears'd Up

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Honduran White "Tent-making" Bats (Ectophylla alba) hiding under a large leaf, family Phyllostomidae, Costa Rica

photograph by Carolyn Nessmann

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Bat fact: Bat feet are rotated 180° compared to ours—and their tendons lock so they can hang upside down without using any energy. 🦇 #HappyBaturday!

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What are probiotics for bats? Read about it in "The Roost Report"! This edition explains some of the recent work done by the Western Bat Program - development of a treatment that may help improve survival rates for bats facing white-nose syndrome. https://www.albertabats.ca/wp-content/uploads/Roost_Report_006_Probiotics.pdf

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White-nose Syndrome (The Roost Report #005) - Alberta Community Bat Program

Our fifth edition of The Roost Report highlights white-nose syndrome and our latest monitoring work in Alberta. Roost Reports 005: White-nos

After a gap of a couple of busy months - we are back with edition #005 of "The Roost Report" - this issue features a basic backgrounder on white-nose syndrome & Pd, and the ways we have been sampling for both.

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A HUGE % of Canadians appreciate and want to conserve nature and natural habitats but only a SMALL % of us actually donate funds to support that work. It's GIVING TUESDAY - a time to contribute towards conservation work. This year, donations will be matched! (up to $20k) #JustDoIt www.albertabats.ca/donate

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Most bats only have one pup a year. One. That means every lost bat is a long-term hit to the population. Conservation isn’t “nice to have.” It’s necessary if we want bats to stick around.