NEWS AND COMMENT: You might know that in Britain for many years the police have been closing police stations at the rate of more than one a week. They’ve closed 663 since 2010 according to a Times report. Ther public want police stations with customer …
Firstly, bats are able to hang upside down for weeks and even months and a time because their toes (and therefore claws) are forced closed by tendons attached to their toes at one end and the rest of their body at the other. Their hanging …
Employing what is called Batesian mimicry, bats mimic a swarm of hornets or wasps when seized by an owl in order to perplex their attacker and give them a split second to release themselves and escape. Researchers from Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II …
In the UK, rare bat populations are growing due to milder winters and springs caused by climate change as well as strong wildlife protection laws, so said the Bat Conservation Trust. They said that five of Britain’s breeding bat species are increasing and six others …
A new coronavirus which is similar to Covid-19 and which has been labelled RhGB01 has been found in British bats by Ivana Murphy a University of East Anglia student while working on her dissertation. There are fears that if a person transmitted Covid-19 to a …
Rupert Grint, the Harry Potter star, wants to develop a barn on his estate into three new three-bedroom homes. He withdrew a previous application to North Hertfordshire District Council to turn the barn into six houses. His home is a former vicarage. It is set …
In an interesting twist, the US Geological Survey has advised American researchers to wear personal protective equipment and take Covid-19 tests before handling bats in order to protect them from a potential transmission from the researchers to the bats. It’s interesting because it is believed …
Ironically, a study has found that vampire bats keep their social distance when ill in order to protect the group, despite the experts deciding that bats are the probable cause of the coronavirus pandemic. Of course it is humans who are the ultimate cause of …
Australian’s flying foxes were thought to set up home and stay put but research indicates that they are a nomadic species and like to find new places to live on a regular basis. In Australian cities they hang from trees in their thousands causing people …
