Indiana bat why is it endangered

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In the background, Indiana bats are drinking from water that has condensed on the cave wall. Indiana Bat Photos on Flickr. The bats, however, were not left to fend for themselves.

The Indiana Airport Authority and the fish and wildlife service worked together to help the bats relocate. As the airport continued to expand and the Ronald Reagan Parkway was developed, that's when the task force was created that produced the Habitat Conservation Plan in , said Georgia Parham, from the External Affairs Office at the Fish and Wildlife Service.

The legacy population of Indiana bats discovered nearly 20 years ago has been monitored longer than any other colony, Parham said. That said, it's still a challenge.

Indiana bats have a single pup every year so it takes a long time for populations to increase. Of this area, 1, acres are reserved for conservation purposes, acres make up the Sodalis Nature Park, and the remaining are non-restricted land. These lands provide roosting habitat for bats and give scientists the opportunity to study them in their spring and summer homes.

Their findings are particularly important because, as Loeb mentioned, previously much of the work was done in caves and little was known of what bats do during the summer. The fragmented forest is covered by meadow foxtail, white and red clover, and crown vetch — vestiges of an agricultural past. Oaks, hickories, and eastern cottonwoods hide the bat boxes where the flying mammals sleep during the day and then fly out of as the sun sets. Simply put, the bat boxes don't always make good bat Airbnbs.

They can also be ecological traps. High temperature and parasite infestation in the bat boxes can be deadly. Avoiding boxes is one of the recommendations resulting from a study Bergeson and his colleagues conducted. And it also reinforces what the Purdue and Indiana State study suggests: That the best hope for a thriving Indiana bat population — especially around the airport — is to plant and protect native trees. She earned her PhD from the University of California Riverside in where she studied the taxonomy and ecology of Washingtonia, a group of palms found in southern California and Baja California, Mexico.

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