Seasonal phenology of the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) at 60° N by Jesika P. Reimer, Robert M. R. Barclay

“…Females did not appear to have lower pre‐hibernation masses than those in more southern populations, suggesting that despite the cool spring and autumn temperatures, and short summer nights, bats are able to obtain enough energy for reproduction and mass accumulation for hibernation. …”
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How different farming practices influence the activity of insectivorous Neotropical bats by Marcelo Silva-Souza, Leonardo Dias-Silva, Sônia Aparecida Talamoni

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Risk for Rabies Transmission from Encounters with Bats, Colorado, 1977–1996 by W. John Pape, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Richard E. Hoffman

“…To assess the risk for rabies transmission to humans by bats, we analyzed the prevalence of rabies in bats that encountered humans from 1977 to 1996 and characterized the bat-human encounters. …”
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Bats—The Magnificent Virus Player: SARS, MERS, COVID-19 and Beyond by Kenneth S. M. Li, Susanna K. P. Lau, Patrick C. Y. Woo

“…Irrespective of whether COVID-19 originated from a natural or a genetically engineered virus, the ultimate source of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is bats [...]…”
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Food niche overlap among neotropical frugivorous bats in Costa Rica by Jorge E Lopez, Christopher Vaughan

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A Novel Modified Bat Algorithm to Solve the Practical Economic Dispatch by SEDAGHATI Reza

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Comparison of the Foraging Activity of Bats in Coniferous, Mixed, and Deciduous Managed Forests by Andrzej Węgiel, Witold Grzywiński, Radosław Jaros, Agnieszka Łacka, Jolanta Węgiel

“…The aim of this study was to compare the foraging activity of bats in coniferous, deciduous, and mixed forests and to test whether this activity was subject to seasonal variation. …”
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Resource partitioning among bat species in Peninsular Malaysia rice fields by Nur-Izzati Abdullah, Nurul-Ain Elias, Nobuhito Ohte, Christian Vincenot

“…Resource partitioning among tropical bats in agricultural areas of Peninsular Malaysia remains unclear. …”
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Pharmaceutical Screening of Bat Feces and Their Applications and Risks in Traditional Chinese Medicine by Kou-Toung Chung, Ching-Lung Lin, Wu-Chang Chuang, Ming-Chung Lee, Li-Wen Chen, Chung-Hsin Wu

“…Bat feces have been reported in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) books to have the effect of reducing fever and improving eyesight, but the mechanism of vision improvement still needs further research. …”
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Accuracy and Error Trends of Commercially Available Bat Swing Sensors in Baseball by Yoshitaka Morishita, Tsutomu Jinji

“…In baseball, the swing speed and swing angle of the bat just before ball impact are important to increase the speed and horizontal distance of a batted ball. …”
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Metabarcoding dietary analysis in the insectivorous bat Nyctalus leisleri and implications for conservation by Sarah Bourlat, Martin Koch, Ameli Kirse, Kathrin Langen, Marianne Espeland, Hendrik Giebner, Jan Decher, Axel Ssymank, Vera Fonseca

Subjects: “…bat conservation…”
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Bat dynamics modelling as a tool for conservation management in subterranean environments. by Dragoş Ştefan Măntoiu, Ionuţ Cornel Mirea, Ionuţ Cosmin Şandric, Alina Georgiana Cîşlariu, Iulian Gherghel, Silviu Constantin, Oana Teodora Moldovan

“…Bat species inhabit subterranean environments (e.g., caves and mines) in small areas with specific microclimatic conditions, during various periods of their life cycle. …”
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Sensitivity of insectivorous bat foraging guilds to urbanization and implications for sustainable development by Genie M. Fleming, Emma E. Ramsay, Muhammad Rizaldi Trias Jaya Putra Nurdin, Grant A. Duffy, Peter A. Faber, Steven L. Chown

Subjects: “…Bat sonotypes…”
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The use of bat houses as day roosts in macadamia orchards, South Africa by Sina M. Weier, Valerie M.G. Linden, Ingo Grass, Teja Tscharntke, Peter J. Taylor

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Environment and host species shape the skin microbiome of captive neotropical bats by Virginie Lemieux-Labonté, Nicolas Tromas, B. Jesse Shapiro, François-Joseph Lapointe

Subjects: “…Bat skin microbiome…”
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Effect of hoop frequency and impact velocity on BBCOR of metal baseball bat by Yuu TAKASHIMA, Fumiya OMI, Yutaka KOBAYASHI, Kenichi TOKIEDA, Seishi FUJIHARA, Kazuyoshi ARAI

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Hybrid Chaotic Quantum Bat Algorithm with SVR in Electric Load Forecasting by Ming-Wei Li, Jing Geng, Shumei Wang, Wei-Chiang Hong

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Hibernation temperature-dependent Pseudogymnoascus destructans infection intensity in Palearctic bats by Natália Martínková, Jiri Pikula, Jan Zukal, Veronika Kovacova, Hana Bandouchova, Tomáš Bartonička, Alexander D. Botvinkin, Jiri Brichta, Heliana Dundarova, Tomasz Kokurewicz, Nancy R. Irwin, Petr Linhart, Oleg L. Orlov, Vladimir Piacek, Pavel Škrabánek, Mikhail P. Tiunov, Alexandra Zahradníková

“…White-nose syndrome (WNS) is a fungal disease caused by Pseudogymnoascus destructans that is devastating to Nearctic bat populations but tolerated by Palearctic bats. …”
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Effectiveness of acoustic lures for increasing tropical forest understory bat captures by Oliver Aylen, Philip J. Bishop, Rodzay bin Haji Abd Wahab, T. Ulmar Grafe

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Urban tolerance is phylogenetically constrained and mediated by pre‐adaptations in African bats by Genevieve E. Marsden, Dalene Vosloo, M. Corrie Schoeman

“…Yet, in Africa, the response of bats to urban areas is relatively understudied. Therefore, we collated data on urban presence, phylogenetic relationship, and ecological traits of 54 insectivorous bats in Africa from available literature to test if their response to urbanization was phylogenetically and/or ecologically driven. …”
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