Philip Dalton / Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) flying from / to Bracken Cave and Echert James Bat Caves, Texas, USA
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Philip Dalton / Red tailed hawk {Buteo jamaicensis} flying amongst and predating on Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) flying from / to Bracken Cave and Echert James Bat Caves, Texas, USA
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Philip Dalton / Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) flying from Bracken Cave and Echert James Bat Caves, Texas, USA
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Philip Dalton / Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) flying from Bracken Cave and Echert James Bat Caves, Texas, USA
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Philip Dalton / Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) flying from Bracken Cave and Echert James Bat Caves, Texas, USA
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Philip Dalton / Red tailed hawk {Buteo jamaicensis} predating on Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) flying from / to Bracken Cave and Echert James Bat Caves, Texas, USA
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Philip Dalton / Red tailed hawk {Buteo jamaicensis} flying amongst and predating on Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) flying from / to Bracken Cave and Echert James Bat Caves, Texas, USA
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Dietmar Nill / Cave which is home to many bat species, and underground river, Sardinia
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Dietmar Nill / Lesser mouse eared bat (Myotis blythii) flying from cave, Sardinia
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Gerrit Vyn / A Little Brown Bat ( Myotis lucifugus) clings to a tree on 20 degree F day outside Aeolus Cave. Despite the apparent health of this individual, it is supposed to be in deep hibernation. White-nose syn...
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Gerrit Vyn / Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Scott Darling holds dead bats found outside Vermont's Aeolus Cave. Bats are infected with White nose syndrome with causes a distinctive ring of fungal...
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Gerrit Vyn / Live and dead Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus) in fected with White nose syndrome, in Aeolus Cave, the largest bat hibernacula in New England. This disease causes a distinctive ring of fungal grow...
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Gerrit Vyn / Live and dead Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus) in fected with White nose syndrome, in Aeolus Cave, the largest bat hibernacula in New England. This disease causes a distinctive ring of fungal grow...
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Gerrit Vyn / Live and dead Little brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus) hang outside Vermont's Aeolus Cave, the largest bat hibernacula in New England. Starving bats infected with white-nose syndrome often exit their hib...
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Gerrit Vyn / The entrance to Vermont's largest bat hibernacula, Aeolus Cave. White-nose syndrome is decimating the caves bat population. Bennington County, Vermont, USA, March 2009
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Gerrit Vyn / The entrance to Vermont's largest bat hibernacula, Aeolus Cave. White-nose syndrome is decimating the caves bat population. Bennington County, Vermont, USA, March 2009
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Gerrit Vyn / Little brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus) hibernating in Aeolus Cave. White-nose syndrome is decimating the caves' bat population, a deadly disease which causes a distinctive ring of fungal growth around t...
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Gerrit Vyn / Little brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus) hibernating in Aeolus Cave. White-nose syndrome is decimating the caves bat population, a deadly disease which causes a distinctive ring of fungal growth around th...
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Gerrit Vyn / The entrance to Vermont's largest bat hibernacula, Aeolus Cave. White-nose syndrome is decimating the caves' bat population. Bennington County, Vermont, USA, March 2009
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Gerrit Vyn / Indiana Bats (Myotis sodalis) infected with white-nose syndrome, a deadly disease which causes a distinctive ring of fungal growth around the muzzles and on the wings of cave bats. Ulster County, New...
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Gerrit Vyn / Indiana Bat (Myotis sodalis) large flock infected with white-nose syndrome, a deadly disease which causes a distinctive ring of fungal growth around the muzzles and on the wings of cave bats. Ulster C...
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Gerrit Vyn / Indiana Bat (Myotis sodalis) large flock infected with white-nose syndrome, a deadly disease which causes a distinctive ring of fungal growth around the muzzles and on the wings of cave bats. Ulster C...
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Gerrit Vyn / Indiana Bat (Myotis sodalis) infected while hibernating with white-nose syndrome, a deadly disease which causes a distinctive ring of fungal growth around the muzzles and on the wings of cave bats. U...
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Chien Lee / Lesser False Vampire Bat (Megaderma spasma) pair roosting in cave, Sekunyit, Bau, Malaysia
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Chien Lee / Lesser False Vampire Bat (Megaderma spasma) roosting in cave, Sekunyit, Bau, Malaysia
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Chien Lee / Lesser False Vampire Bat (Megaderma spasma) roosting in cave, Sekunyit, Bau, Malaysia
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Chadden Hunter / Cameraman, Chadden Hunter, taping up rip in his paper suit meant to keep out the millions of cockroaches and centipedes living on bat guano covering the cave floor, for the Caves episode of the BBC tv...
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Wild Wonders of Europe / Lesniewski / Lesser mouse eared bat (Myotis blythii) colony roosting in cave, Bagerova Steppe, Kerch Peninsula, Crimea, Ukraine, July 2009
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Wild Wonders of Europe / Lesniewski / Lesser mouse eared bats (Myotis blythii) roosting in cave, Bagerova Steppe, Kerch Peninsula, Crimea, Ukraine, July 2009
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Wild Wonders of Europe / Lesniewski / Lesser mouse eared bat (Myotis blythii) colony roosting in cave, Bagerova Steppe, Kerch Peninsula, Crimea, Ukraine, July 2009 Wild Wonders kids book.
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Wild Wonders of Europe / Lesniewski / Lesser mouse eared bat (Myotis blythii) colony roosting in cave, one in flight, Bagerova Steppe, Kerch Peninsula, Crimea, Ukraine, July 2009
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Wild Wonders of Europe / Lesniewski / Colony of Lesser mouse eared bats (Myotis blythii) roosting in cave, Bagerova Steppe, Kerch Peninsula, Crimea, Ukraine, July 2009
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Pete Oxford / Tongue-clicking bats (Rousettus madagascariensis) roosting in bat cave, Madagascar
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Kevin Schafer / Multiple species of bats emerge from a limestone cave at dusk, Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
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James Christensen / Chestnut Sac-winged Bat (Cormura brevirostris) roosting in limestone cave, Colon, Panama
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Wild Wonders of Europe / Nill / Mouse-eared bats (Myotis sp) and Schreiber's long fingered bats (Miniopterus schreibersi) flying from roost in cave, Bulgaria, May 2008
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Wild Wonders of Europe / Nill / Juvenile Mehely's horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus mehelyi) roosing in cave, Bulgaria, May 2008
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Wild Wonders of Europe / Nill / Juvenile Mehely's Horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus mehelyi) roosting in a cave near Nikopol, Bulgaria, May 2008
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Wild Wonders of Europe / Nill / Mouse-eared bats (Myotis sp) and Schreiber's long fingered bats (Miniopterus schreibersi) roosting in cave, Bulgaria, May 2008
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Wild Wonders of Europe / Nill / Mehely's Horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus mehelyi) flying with baby in cave near Nikopol, Bulgaria, May 2008
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Wild Wonders of Europe / Arndt / Lesser Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus hipposideros) hibernating in cave amongst stalactites, Grotta Monte Majore, Gennargentu NP, Sardinia, Italy, November 2008
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Inaki Relanzon / Madagascar bat (Miniopterus sp) roosting in cave, Ankarana Special Reserve, Ambilobe, North Madagascar.
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Inaki Relanzon / Madagascar bat (Miniopterus sp) roosting in cave, Ankarana Special Reserve, Ambilobe, North Madagascar.
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Inaki Relanzon / Tongue clicking bats (Rousettus madagascariensis) roosting in and flying from cave, Ankarana Special Reserve, Ambilobe, North Madagascar.
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Inaki Relanzon / Madagascar bat (Miniopterus sp) roosting in cave, Ankarana Special Reserve, Ambilobe, North Madagascar.
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Inaki Relanzon / Straw coloured fruit bats (Eidolon dupreanum) roosting in cave, Ankarana Special Reserve, Ambilobe, North Madagascar.
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Michael Durham / Cave Myotis (Myotis velifer) bat flying into a limestone cave, Texas
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Michael Durham / Cave Myotis (Myotis velifer) bat flying into a limestone cave, Texas
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Michael Durham / Brazilian Free-tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) group emerging from Bracken Cave at dusk, Texas (multiple images stitched together)
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Michael Durham / Brazilian Free-tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) group emerging from Bracken Cave at dusk, Texas
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Michael Durham / Brazilian Free-tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) group emerging from Bracken Cave at dusk, Texas
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Michael Durham / Brazilian Free-tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) group emerging from James Eckert River Bat Cave at dusk, Texas (composite image)
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Kerstin Hinze / Long-Fingered Bats (Myotis capaccinii) and Lesser Mouse-eared Bats (Myotis oxygnathus) with young, roosting in Devataska Cave, Bulgaria
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Kerstin Hinze / Long-Fingered Bats (Myotis capaccinii) and Lesser Mouse-eared Bats (Myotis oxygnathus) with young, roosting in Devataska Cave, Bulgaria
Kerstin Hinze / Greater Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) roosting together with Mehely's Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus mehelyi) in the cave Grotta su Coloru, Sardinia, Italy
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Kerstin Hinze / Greater Horseshoe Bat ( Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) roosting in the cave Grotta su Coloru, Sardinia, Italy
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Kerstin Hinze / Greater Horseshoe Bat ( Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) roosting in the cave Grotta su Coloru, Sardinia, Italy
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Kerstin Hinze / Lesser Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus hipposideros), hibernating amongst stalagtites in the cave Grotta Monte Majore, Sardinia, Italy
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Kerstin Hinze / Greater Horseshoe Bat ( Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) roosting in the cave Grotta su Coloru, Sardinia, Italy
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Kerstin Hinze / Lesser Horseshoe Bat ( Rhinolophus hipposideros), hibernating amongst stalagtites in the cave Grotta Monte Majore, Sardinia, Italy
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Kerstin Hinze / Mehely's Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus mehelyi), roosting in the cave Grotta su Coloru, Sardinia, Italy
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Kerstin Hinze / Lesser Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus hipposideros) hibernating amongst stalagtites in the cave Grotta Monte Majore, Sardinia, Italy
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David Kjaer / Frio Cave, near Concan in the Texas Hill Country, Texas, USA. This cave is the second largest bat cave for Mexican Free-tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) in the world and contains between 10 to 15 mi...
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David Kjaer / Mexican Free-tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana) emerging at dusk from Frio Cave, near Concan in the Texas Hill Country, Texas, USA.
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David Kjaer / Mexican Free-tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana) emerging at dusk from Frio Cave, near Concan in the Texas Hill Country, Texas, USA.
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David Kjaer / Mexican Free-tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana) emerging at dusk from Frio Cave, near Concan in the Texas Hill Country, Texas, USA. This cave is the second largest bat cave for this species...
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Thomas Marent / Bat pair roosting in cave, Puerto Angel, Mexico
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Inaki Relanzon / Lesser horseshoe bat {Rhinolophus hipposideros} roosting in cave, France
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Inaki Relanzon / Colony of Schreiber's long fingered bat {Miniopterus schreibersii} roosting in cave, France
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Inaki Relanzon / Schreiber's long fingered bat {Miniopterus schreibersii} roosting in cave, note ring, France
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Phil Savoie / Keen's brown bat (Myotis keenii) sleeping in cave, Blanford, Connecticut, USA
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Nick Upton / Greater spear-nosed bat (Phyllostomus hastatus) female harems, each guarded by a single male, roosting in limestone cave, Trinidad.
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Dietmar Nill / Gray short tailed Bat (Carollia subrufa) flying out of cave, Germany
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Nigel Marven / Ian McCarthy, cameraman, in bat cave wearing mask to protect him from fungal spores that grow on bat guano.
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Barry Mansell / Ghost-faced Bats (Mormoops megalophylla) flying into cave through cave entrance, Sabinas, Mexico
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Barry Mansell / Ghost-faced Bats (Marmoops megalophylla) at cave entrance, Sabinas, Mexico
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Konrad Wothe / Bat group hanging from ceiling of Aripo Caves, Trinidad, West Indies, Caribbean
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Konrad Wothe / Bat group hanging from ceiling of Aripo Caves, Trinidad, West Indies, Caribbean
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Konrad Wothe / Bat group hanging from ceiling of Aripo Caves, Trinidad, West Indies, Caribbean
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Barry Mansell / Hobb's Cave Amphipod (Crangonyx hobbsi) blind cave amphipod found in the underground aquifer of Florida. Bat Cave, Gilcrest Co. Florida, USA
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Barry Mansell / Cave crayfish (Procambarus l alachua) Bat cave, Florida, USA
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Barry Mansell / Cave crayfish (Procambarus l alachua) Bat cave, Florida, USA
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Tom Vezo / Cave Myotis (Myotis velifer) a nectar feeding bat
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Tom Vezo / Cave Myotis (Myotis velifer) a nectar feeding bat
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Pete Oxford / Madagascar Rousette Tongue clicking bats (Rousettus madagascariensis) in a cave at Ankarana Special Reserve. nw MADAGASCAR
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Matthew Maran / Wrinkle-lipped free tailed bats (Tadarida plicata) emerging from Deer cave at dusk, Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia
Nature Production / Two Greater Horseshoe Bats {Rhinolophus ferrumequinum} flying out of a cave, Japan
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Nature Production / Greater Horseshoe Bat {Rhinolophus ferrumequinum} flying in a cave, Mt Fuji, Yamanashi, Japan
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Juergen Freund / Fruit bat in cave (Megachiroptera) Komodo Island, Indonesia
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Christian Ziegler / Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) colony roosting in cave, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Michael Durham / Townsend's Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus townsendii) exits a cave in the Derrick Cave Complex, a series of lava tubes and lava bubbles, central Oregon
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Michael Durham / Townsend's Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus townsendii) pair exit a cave while a third flies in the background in the Derrick Cave Complex, a series of lava tubes and lava bubbles, dusk, central Oregon
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Michael Durham / Townsend's Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus townsendii) exits a cave in the Derrick Cave Complex, central Oregon
