“Our biggest question and what we wanted to know is: Where (do) these bats go during winter and what do they do when we’re not seeing them?' said Natalie Velez-Suarez, with the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge.
Researchers hope Kodiak’s ‘Bat Week’ will help answer some questions about the animals’ lives in AlaskaBat biologist Jesika Reimer holds a little brown bat at the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge’s headquarters. It’s the first time researchers have studied the island’s bat population.
Biologist Jesika Reimer caught a female pup with a fine net stretched between two poles. She held it between her latex gloved hands and recorded everything about it — weight, wing length, sex. It was then then banded with an ID number. “Our biggest question and what we wanted to know is: Where these bats go during winter and what do they do when we’re not seeing them?” said Velez-Suarez.Reimer — the biologist leading the Kodiak study — is an associate research specialist at the University of California Davis. She’s been studying bat populations in northern North America for over a decade.
But there’s less food and habitat further north, making the little brown bat the resident species in the Interior. And Reimer said Kodiak is one big question mark.Bat studies in Alaska are a burgeoning area of research — largely spearheaded by the
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