One of my all time favourites of the decade!!

This 👇🏽❤️❤️❤️
A wonderful #Top10 by Dr. Aaron Corcoran 🦇 on cool 🦇 discoveries from the 2010s!!
The decade in which I started working on these fluff bundles 😌😌😌😌

This is why #BatTwitter is always the best 😌😌

One of those pteropodids that show some fascinating behaviours!
Nice to see a video of it 🥹😌
#Bats_in_my_bucketlist

Ever wonder what a bat researcher carries into the field?

Rohit Chakravarty's toolkit includes field guides, headlamps and flashlights, bat detectors, a camera, GPS, vernier calipers and a spring balance, nets and, of course, gloves to keep him protected from bitey bats.

At wildlab.in 's Workshop on Bat Taxonomy, Acoustics, and Biogeography. Thank you Baheerathan M IISER Mohali Balaji Chattopadhyay, Kritika M. Garg Ashoka University, Parvathy Venugopal Bat Conservation Trust #kscste #kfri #batforbats

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Always happy to see bats in the good light 😌
Wonderful meeting & glad to be part of such initiatives. Thanks Sreehari R, KAU wildlab Balakrishnan Peroth & the entire team for making this happen.
Was a nice opportunity to catch up with Rohit Chakravarty @paru_venugopal after a while

Bats are, like humans, birds, and whales vocal-learners. A new study Science Magazine investigated genes associated with vocal-learning in 🦇.
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Geographic variation and discrimination of social calls in male great himalayan leaf-nosed bats: do functionally similar calls have similar patterns? dlvr.it/T4m5PK BES

We warmly invite you to our next #WingedWednesday webinar! 🦇

On Wednesday 24 April, Dr Rohit Chakravarty will share; 'Bats in the Himalayas...and Beyond'.
3pm southern African time (2pm BST | 1pm GMT | 9am EDT)
Rohit Chakravarty
Sign up: lght.ly/ooab4c6

We congratulate Sajesh Vijayan 🍉 സജേഷ് വിജയൻ 🍉 (he/him/his) on successfully defending his Ph.D thesis on the #VisualEcology of the giant honeybee #Apisdorsata . We are very happy for you Dr. Sajesh, may you guide many more bee-enthusiasts.

He is currently pursuing a post-doc in Natasha Mhatre lab.

A wonderful PI and a good opportunity for interested candidates

Congratulations to the cohort! 🦇

Our paper 'Cat–wildlife interactions and zoonotic disease risk: a call for more and better community science data' was selected as the Editor's choice in the last issue of Mammal Review

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ma…

#FreeRangingCats #bats #zoonoses #COVID19 #AvianInflueza

Super interesting new paper by ⁦Shambhavi C., MSc. (she/her) 🌈🌈⁩ about serial reversal learning in nectar-feeding bats 🦇 🦇🦇 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

This fall, we will again be running the renowned Sensory Ecology postgrad course here in Lund. Find information and sign up at the link below. Registration is on a first come-first serve basis.

biology.lu.se/phd-studies/ph…

🚨New paper alert🚨 – We demonstrate how phyllostomid bats radiated via an early burst, a pattern that is only apparent in traits linked to diet:
The hierarchical radiation of phyllostomid bats as revealed by adaptive molar morphology
authors.elsevier.com/a/1iic63QW8S6D…
Current Biology

Previous research has examined colour sensitivity and neural anatomy in #Heliconius , but visual acuity has never been explored. Read #BiologyLetters paper - Quantifying visual acuity in Heliconius butterflies ow.ly/qxR850QBbzZ | #Lepidoptera #Aposematism #evolution

Juvenile sprats 🐟migrate by using a time-compensated sun compass. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/do…

Journal of Experimental Biology

Many insects orient based on celestial polarized light. A new study Lund Vision Group found that POL sensitive photoreceptors of nocturnal dung 🪲 are sensitive to green light. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/do…
Ayse Yilmaz Gregor Belusic J. Foster C. Tocco, L. Khaldy Dacke Lab

Does the diversity of anuran iris patterns have an ecological function or is it just beauty in the eye of the beholder? dlvr.it/T3CDpk