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Happy Halloween: Bats!

To help celebrate Halloween here are some bats! The Big Brown Bat, Eptesicus fuscus, is the most common bat in our area. They are easily seen at dusk flying around parks and water sources as they...

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Blooming Agaves

More plant news from the North Campus. Recently some of our blue lotus agaves, Agave ceslii'Nova', have begun to bloom. This is an impressive sight as these plants send forth long spikes, (between four...

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We Have a Bat Detector, and Bats Too!

Guess what? We have bats in the Nature Gardens! And we have proof, thanks to two of our intrepid scientists, Jim Dines and Miguel Ordeñana.Here's the proof, in sonogram format:Keep reading to find out...

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We Found Bats Living at the La Brea Tar Pits!

If you’ve ever been to the La Brea Tar Pits you might have wondered if bats were around during the last Ice Age when saber-toothed cats (Smilodon fatalis), Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi), and...

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We Found a Western Red Bat in the Nature Gardens: A Small Visitor with Big...

Western red bat, Lasiurus blossevillii, photo by Ted Weller, US Forest Service.read more

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L.A. Bats Fight On!

Miguel Ordeñana Happy (American) football season everybody! Yes, some scientists enjoy playing and watching sports in addition to searching for wild animals and staring at tiny things under a...

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