Bat Week | Meet the Experts | Juliet Nagel

I fell in love with bats during a tropical ecology course during my undergraduate degree. While traveling in Costa Rica, we were lucky enough to visit a research center where they were mist-netting bats. I had never seen a bat up close before, and the fruit bats with striped faces, nectar bats with crazy long […]

Bat Week | Meet the Experts | Brenna Hyzy

1) What got you into bats or brought you to WEST?   I studied abroad in college when I was 19 and worked on an invasive mongoose project. The professor leading that project was a bat biologist. I was badly bitten by one of the mongoose harem males (which apparently impressed her) and she invited me […]