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Bat Week: Celebrating ecologically important, poorly understood mammals

MONGABAY · David Brown · Oct 30, 2026 05:33 UTC

Bat Week, from Oct. 24-31, 2026, is a worldwide celebration of bats — a group that makes up 20% of all mammals. Bats live on all continents except for Antarctica, and provide major ecosystem services such as mosquito control, pollination and seed dispersal. Despite their ecological importance and ubiquity, bats still remain poorly understood. Here […]

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