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Bats may benefit from wildfire. Bats face many threats -- from habitat loss and climate change to emerging diseases, such as white-nose syndrome. But it appears that wildfire is not among those threats. Source 7r.

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Tiny insects become 'visible' to bats when they swarm. Small insects that would normally be undetectable to bats using echolocation suddenly become detectable when they occur in large swarms. Source 4b.

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Does this ring a bell? Wild bats can remember sounds for years. There are certain skills that once we acquire them, we rarely have to relearn them, like riding a bike or looking both ways before crossing a street. Most studies on learning and long-term memory in the wild focus on a handful of animal species. Now, in a publication in Current Biology, researchers working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) share the first report of long-term memory in frog-eating bats (Trachops cirrhosus). Source 9g.