Why does it cost £100m for HS2 to protect bats?
The chairman of the HS2 rail line said it was spending £100m on a shield to protect bats in ancient woodland in. Sir John ...
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Barrier to protect bats from trains will cost £100m
A special barrier which will be built to protect rare bats will cost £100m, according to the chairman of HS2 Ltd.
Birds, bees and bats working together means more macadamia nuts
An international research team led by the universities of Göttingen and Hohenheim in Germany has gained new insights into how ...
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Bats Navigate Vast Distances Using Sound Alone
The innovative research carried out over six years, utilized a unique tracking system installed in Israel's Hula Valley. Using this GPS-like technology, the researchers could track the flight of tiny ...
Bats may be a scary Halloween symbol, but they benefit humans, and save farmers money
Bats' biggest boon to humans may be in their diet. A single bat can eat thousands of insects per night, ridding the air of ...
Lake Man bats for natural methods to revive Dharamshala’s Dal
After surveying Dal Lake, Anand Malligavad, known as the “Lake Man“ on Tuesday met with officials from various departments to ...
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HS2 building £100m ‘shed’ to protect bats from trains – but only 300 would benefit
The 1km-tunnel is being built in case Bechstein's bats 'forage' or 'commute' too close to the high-speed railway line - at a ...
Bats use echolocation to make mental maps for navigation
Many species of bats use echolocation to avoid obstacles like tree branches and hunt small insects as they fly through the ...
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Blood-sucking vampire bats put on treadmill to understand their strange metabolism
The researchers found that vampire bats — like blood-sucking insects — are capable of metabolizing amino acids as a primary ...
The mortality rate of bats at modern-day swimming pools is comparable to that at Messel 47 million years ago
More than 500 bat fossils have been discovered at the Messel Pit UNESCO World Heritage Site over 42 years. A new study, ...
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Eyes wide shut: Bats can navigate long distances using sound alone
A new study by Tel Aviv University and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History has proven, for the first time, that bats can navigate in nature over many kilometers using only echolocation, without ...
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Bats have acoustic mental maps to navigate total darkness
Bats navigate effectively using echolocation and memory. This study shows how they use past experiences to map their ...