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Bats, the only mammals that fly, are among nature's least understood and unfairly maligned creatures. They are extremely valuable animals, responsible for consuming huge numbers of insects and pollinating and dispersing the seeds of...

A reference to the bird-like, nocturnal mammal, usually applied to a woman as ‘you old bat’, implying that she is repulsive. ‘You old bag’ would be roughly synonymous. In A Salute to the Great McCarthy, by Barry Oakley,...

The acronym for Best Available Techniques. It is a method used principally in systems of pollution control to ensure that the most effective means of control are applied or introduced by the operator of a business but balancing the cost to the operator...

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The collision of an aluminum bat and a baseball produces a distinctive "ping," a sound of summer heard on youth ballfields across the country. But a small though vocal contingent of lawmakers, coaches and parents have tried to drown out the "ping" with calls to...

Dave Waldien stretches, shining his helmet's light into a limestone crevice. "I've got two," he says. "One's a big brown ... and I'm not sure what that one is." Stepping across a few of the cave's boulders, Jim Kennedy takes a look.It's a northern myotis,...

Scientists have found the deadly Marburg virus in one type of African fruit bat, the first time it's been detected in an animal other than a monkey.The bats were collected in the West Africa countries of Gabon and the Republic of Congo, but the test...

Researchers are studying a colony of bats that live in an underground concrete structure at the Hanford nuclear reservation in hopes of determining how to provide a new home for them once the structure is demolished.The large clearwell near the Columbia River was once used...