Featured Videos
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Bats: Tiny Creatures, Big Challenges
Although bats are small mammals, they face some large challenges. Learn more about what the National Park Service is doing to preserve bat populations in national parks.
- Duration:
- 10 minutes, 6 seconds
Outside Science (inside parks) Episodes Featuring Bats
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Outside Science (inside parks): Bats at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
Follow along as our crew learns about bats in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
- Duration:
- 3 minutes, 56 seconds
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Outside Science (inside parks): Monitoring Night Skies at Carlsbad Caverns National Park
"I came here when I was ten and was absolutely hooked. I told my dad I was going to live and work here..." For Mosaics in Science intern Jenna Crabtree and the night skies team at Carlsbad Caverns National Park, it's all about keeping the bats happy, the park healthy, and the night dark. Join this team of scientists as they monitor night sky quality.
- Duration:
- 4 minutes, 57 seconds
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Outside Science (inside parks): Bats & Beetles
The Outside Science film crew spent some time at Fire Island National Seashore with Student Conservation Association (SCA) interns tracking bats and fighting pine beetles.
- Duration:
- 3 minutes, 27 seconds
White-Nose Syndrome
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Bats in Crisis: Introduction
An introduction video into the White-Nose Syndrome Bats in Crisis Video Series
- Duration:
- 4 minutes, 24 seconds
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Bats in Crisis: Response
The third video in the White-Nose Syndrome Bats in Crisis Video Series
- Duration:
- 6 minutes, 18 seconds
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Explain Yourself: Wildlife Technician
Gabby is a Wildlife Technician at Glacier National Park whose focus is on birds and bats. Watch her try to explain a recent research project she's working on, vaccinating bats for White-Nose Syndrome, using only the 1000 most common words in the English language.
- Duration:
- 1 minute, 27 seconds
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Combating White Nose Syndrome
White Nose Syndrome (WNS) is affecting bat populations across the country. This deadly disease is within the Black Hills and has been found at Jewel Cave. How are bats being protected? What can you do to help slow the spread of this disease? This video podcast shares the history of WNS and what is being done by the National Park Service to combat it at the park level.
- Duration:
- 4 minutes, 17 seconds
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White-Nose Syndrome
Researchers are gathering information about the park's bats to help combat white nose syndrome.
- Duration:
- 8 minutes, 54 seconds
Bat Research and Conservation
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Glacier's Bats: An Adventure in Bat Research
This video highlights threats to bat species in Glacier National Park. With the threat of white-nose syndrome looming on the horizon, park biologists are trying to find out what species of bats live in the park and monitor any changes to their populations.
- Duration:
- 5 minutes, 50 seconds
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Explorers for Bats
Discover how recreational rock climbers and park service scientists team up to learn more about bats.
- Duration:
- 13 minutes, 28 seconds
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Bats in Acadia
Bats are an important part of our ecosystem, providing many benefits for humans. Science helps us understand both resident and migratory bat species and the challenges they face. Update: This video contains sequences in which researchers catch, examine, tag, and release bats as part of ongoing inventory and monitoring studies. During the COVID-19 crisis, this practice has been suspended to avoid any chance of passing disease along to study subjects. This Second Second Century Stewardship series video was produced for the NPS by Rhonda Wasner
- Duration:
- 4 minutes, 55 seconds
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Partners for Bats
At Devils Tower National Monument, park staff work with other agencies to learn about bat habitat and help protect bats from white-nose syndrome.
- Duration:
- 3 minutes, 33 seconds
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Bat Study at Homestead
This study seeks a threatened specie and more information about how bats utilize park habitat.
- Duration:
- 6 minutes, 4 seconds
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Before It's Too Late
Resource education film on bats in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
- Duration:
- 8 minutes, 40 seconds
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Gone in the Night: Conservation Efforts of the Northern Long-Eared Bat
Full Length Video for Gone in the Night: Conservation Efforts of the Northern Long-Eared Bat
- Duration:
- 7 minutes, 5 seconds
All About Bats
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Bats of Phantom Ranch
Grand Canyon is an important refuge for its 22 bat species. While they are the only mammals capable of true flight, bats share the main characteristics as almost all other mammals: they have hair, give birth to live offspring, nurse their young, and can control their body temperature. Amazingly, a small bat can eat up to 5,000 insects per night! Take a "Minute Out In It" to experience the dance of the bats at Phantom Ranch deep in the inner canyon, a subtle yet beautiful prologue to the ballet of night.
- Duration:
- 1 minute, 2 seconds
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All About Bats
National Park Service wildlife veterinarian Michelle Verant shares expertise on bats and White Nose Syndrome, and engages with BioBlitz participants at the NPS Centennial celebration on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., May 2016.
- Duration:
- 6 minutes, 30 seconds
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For the Love of Bats
Nine species of bats live within and around Jewel Cave National Monument. Although most visitors never see any bats while exploring the area, during the off-season the historic entrance is home to one of the largest hibernating bat colonies in the Great Plains. These flying mammals are an important part of the Black Hills ecosystem.
- Duration:
- 5 minutes, 5 seconds
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Bat Surveys
Watch an evening departure of about 200 Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) from a roost in Capitol Reef. Mexican free-tails are found in the western U.S., south through Mexico, Central America and into northern South America. Mexican free-tailed bats in Capitol Reef migrate south to Central America and Mexico during the winter. These insectivorous bats have dark brown or gray colored fur, they weigh 0.4-0.5 oz (11-14 g) and their wingspan is between 12-14 in (30-35 cm). They have broad, black, forward pointing ears, wrinkled lips, and their wings are long and narrow; they are very fast flyers. Although this roost only numbered about 200 bats, colonies of over 20,000,000 can be found elsewhere in their range!
- Duration:
- 1 minute, 5 seconds
Last updated: October 10, 2024