New paper!🦇🥳🎉A captive population of Livingstone's fruit bats living @DurrellWildlife and @BristolZooGdns were found to have extremely stable dominance hierarchies, with older males tending to sit right at the top. (1/n)

📢New book chapter! Led by former PhD student Dr Nor Zalipah. Bats are important pollinating agents of the Sonneratia genus of mangroves in Peninsular #Malaysia. Yet another example of the fantastic ecosystem services #bats provide! 🦇➕🌺=🌳🌳🌊🐟🐡 link.springer.com/referencew…

Congratulations to our very own MRes student, Clare Wilkie (garethjoneslab.com/clare-wil…) in the @BIAZA photography competition, for this stunning photo of an American alligator! @BristolBioSci theguardian.com/environment/…

Fantastic greater horseshoe bat action on tonight's @BBCSpringwatch - featuring @JSPFroidevaux 's research on the importance of well-managed hedgerows for our nocturnal wildlife 🦇🦋🌳 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi… @_BCT_

Come join us at the world's first twitter #bat🦇conference! From #evolution & #behaviour to new #biologging & tracking tech - it's not one to be missed! Deadline for abstract submission is 17th May #wbtc1 @bat_uwe worldbats.wordpress.com/

A beautiful film about the life of the greater horseshoe bat - an extraordinary species indeed @devonbatproject @_BCT_ youtu.be/ePwY3TG7X3Y

A well-deserved congratulations to Dr Parvathy Venugopal @Paru_batminton for successfully passing her #PhD viva! Her work sought to unravel the taxonomic ambiguity in two hipposiderid bats - H. lankadiva and H. pomona -from the Indian Subcontinent.@BristolBioSci @commonwealthfnd

Check out this NEW PAPER🙌 from the brilliant Lia Gilmour @BatDeterrentRes - comparing bat deterrence methods to mitigate bat-human🦇👨conservation conflicts. Ultrasonic speakers🔊were effective deterrents at foraging sites - whereas radar alone was not. journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…

Some of the many lesser horseshoe bats found during our survey of hibernation sites in Gloucestershire (c) @lukerbio @gloswildlife @_BCT_

Woodlands are valuable havens for #wildlife, but require management to provide a wide range of ecosystem services (🦋🏠🪑). How does #woodland #management affect bats🦇and their insect🦟prey? Find out in our new paper: bit.ly/2r7DVqL @UoCNSF @BristolBioSci @_BCT_