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37 - In Praise of Bat Detectors

from Part II - Essays: Inspiring Fieldwork

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2020

By
Kirsty Park
Edited by
Tim Burt  and
Des Thompson
Tim Burt
Affiliation:
Durham University
Des Thompson
Affiliation:
Scottish Natural Heritage
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Summary

When I tell people I work on bats, the most typical response is ‘how cool!’. I suspect part of the reason for this (other than the fact that bats are, indeed, very cool) is that to most people they are they are largely unseen, unheard and relatively little known, even though they are amongst our commonest mammals (20 per cent of all mammals are bats). At most, people may catch fleeting glances of them flying around their garden or streetlights at night.

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Curious about Nature
A Passion for Fieldwork
 , pp. 290 - 295
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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