Sarah Rowley – Fascinating Bats

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  • Happy Halloween

    Once of the most valuable things my career in business development taught me was to communicate and make connections. This story is a great example of just that. My Dad fell in the garden in May during lockdown and broke his shoulder. He ended up in hospital for 3 weeks. As he was ready to…

  • “Make do and mend”

    The travel bans and social distancing measures that have been put in place to control the spread of coronavirus has resulted in all of my field work being cancelled so far this year. I was due to visit Denmark at the end of March and had planned to be in Oxford this week to test…

  • Happy Bat Appreciation Day!

    Until I went back to university 4 years ago, I had only limited knowledge of the nature world. I watched nature documentaries, read the occasional article, maybe visited a zoo but I had no scientific knowledge or understanding of our natural world. My first degree is in business and after graduating, went on to work…

  • Bats are all around us

    Some people might be surprised to know that bats are all around us. They inhabit nearly every part of the world apart from the Arctic and Antarctic where conditions are too extreme for them to survive. There are circa 1300 species (Taylor & Tuttle 2019) across the world and Britain is home to 18 species…

  • It all started in isolation

    Its day 22 of lockdown as the country and the world fight to control a novel coronavirus (COVID-19). A virus which is rumoured to have originated from bats and jumped the species barrier via humans eating bats. All I’m going to say to anyone who believes that bats are the bad guys – this is…