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Chiropterology (BATS) Encore with Merlin Tuttle

Ologies with Alie Ward

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Access to Food Stores Influence Breeding in Gray Bats

Female gray bats need access to insect-rich territories to breed, but older females guard these territories leading to delays in breeding. In populations where turf wars have declined, bats can breed easier and earlier if they have food stores available. Most gray bats wait a year before breeding, and if they lack energy to produce a fetus the next spring, they resorb the fetus.

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