Bat Week: Celebrating ecologically important, poorly understood mammals

Mongabay
Oct 30, 2026, 1:33 am62 ptsTrending
Bat Week, from Oct. 24-31, 2026, is a worldwide celebration of bats — a group that makes up 20% of all mammals. Bats live on all continents except for Antarctica, and provide major ecosystem services such as mosquito control, pollination and seed dispersal. Despite their ecological importance and ubiquity,…

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