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#1928: Where are the Alaska bats right now?

Photo: A little brown bat in the Yukon having an identification tag installed by a biologist. Photo courtesy Tom Jung.Eileen Weatherby of Fairbanks wrote in mid-September that her cat carried in a surprise one morning. Instead of the usual vole, her cat had captured a bat.

“I was startled because I thought bats in the Interior were pretty rare,” she wrote in an email message.

Eileen is right. Alaska is the far, frigid edge of bats’ existence. But they do live in Alaska, in places with trees, perhaps as far north as Fort Yukon. The palm-size creatures are now, in mid-October, avoiding below-freezing temperatures by either hibernating or migrating southward. Scientists aren’t quite sure which strategy far-north bats employ…(more)


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