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Climate Change May Shrink Bat Moms' Range
2013-02-02 18:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Each the spring, female Indiana bats leave the cool caves where they spend the winter hibernating and head north, gathering together in trees to form maternity colonies to have their young. A new study shows that climate change could squeeze these bat moms into a much smaller range over the next 50 years. The endangered bats are currently found over most of the eastern half of the United States, but researchers found that much of Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio will become...
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