The Secret World of Bats

Do you love bats? Think you know a thing or two about them? This class will delight and enthrall you with new information! Dr. Rick Adams shares secrets you didn't even know you were dying to know! Learn about their perplexing morphology, quirky personalities, saucy love lives, parenting woes, and so much more.

Dr. Rick Adams, Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UNC; Associate Editor for Acta Chiropterologica; and President/Founder, The Colorado Bat Society; is one of the country's leading experts on bats, specializing in the ecology and evolution of bats. His research involves the relationship of water resources to population and community ecology of Coloradan bats; the development and evolution of flight in bats based on investigations of bone development in prenatal fetuses and in juveniles as they learn to fly; and natural disasters (hurricanes and volcanoes) and their effect on island bat populations. Author of "Bats of the Rocky Mountain West: Natural History, Ecology, and Conservation."

Resources

• https://www.coloradobatsociety.org/
• https://darkskycolorado.org/

This class is part of our Dark Sky programming series. See the full line up of events here: https://www.eventbrite.com/manage/collections/4492513/events

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Host or Publisher High Plains Environmental Center