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Bats Magazine: BACKYARD “BATIVISTS” – BCI Intern Sophia Seufert inspires young bat lovers with video series
By Laurel Neme “Anyone can be a backyard ‘bativist’,” says Sophia Seufert, BCI intern and Brandeis University junior. Seufert spent her summer creating a series of videos for BCI to help young people connect with bats and create “bativists”—that is, bat activists. The virtual internship started after Charles Chester, BCI’s Board Chair and professor at…
Read MoreBats Magazine: Boosting Bats by Restoring Mexico’s Agaves
Boosting Bats by Restoring Mexico’s Agaves By Kristen Pope and Laurel Neme The endangered Mexican long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris nivalis) hovered beside the 20-foot-tall stalk of an agave and probed the deep flowers with its long snout. Lapping at the nectar, flakes of pollen blanketed its muzzle, ready to drop into the next flower. With light-colored…
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