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1) Stellaluna
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother.
2) Bats
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Color photographs and simple text introduce bats, including how they fly, hunt, roost, and care for their young.
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Description
There are more than 1,300 species of bats - or almost a quarter of the world's mammal species. But before you shrink in fear from these furry "creatures of the night," consider the bat's fundamental role in our ecosystem. A single brown bat can eat several thousand insects in a night. This book presents these nocturnal creatures in a new light.
9) Bats
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes the anatomy of the bat, its' flight mechanisms, and discusses much of the mystery that surrounds this creature.
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
"White-nose syndrome" (WNS) is an emerging fungal disease of hibernating North American bat species. To date, WNS has likely killed between 5.7 and 6.7 million hibernating bats in caves and inactive mines in the eastern USA, and has contributed to the imperilment of some bat populations and species. The WNS fungus (Geomyces destructans) has the potential to kill individuals of many of the 18 bat species native to Colorado. Bats are ecologically and...
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
"White-nose syndrome" (WNS) is an emerging fungal disease of hibernating North American bat species. To date, WNS has likely killed between 5.7 and 6.7 million hibernating bats in caves and inactive mines in the eastern USA, and has contributed to the imperilment of some bat populations and species. The WNS fungus (Geomyces destructans) has the potential to kill individuals of many of the 18 bat species native to Colorado. Bats are ecologically and...
16) Rabies
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Description
Rabies is a preventable viral disease of mammals most often transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal. Includes links to general information, exposure policies and procedures, statistics and surveillance, and related sites.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
In Bats, we follow a little brown bat whose wing is injured by humans on a nature hike. He is taken to a bat rehabilitation center where he meets many different species of bats. They teach him how they fly, what they eat, and where they like to live.
19) Bat week
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Attaching tiny transmitters to brown bats to find where they roost during the day at Castlewood Canyon State Park. Discussion of bat behavior including echolocation and roosting habits.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Bat populations in the western portion of the US are threatened by the rapid westward expansion of White-nose Syndrome (WNS), a disease implicated in the loss of over a million bats since 2006. Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd), the fungus believed responsible for WNS, has been confirmed in southeastern Wyoming, south central Kansas, western Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle, potentially placing at least 13 of the 18 bat species native to Colorado...