It is just after sunset in mid-August 2019, and Leah Rensel is getting ready with a team of biologists and highly trained volunteers. The University of British Columbia Okanagan master’s student is catching female little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) as they are leaving the boiler room of a building in Mission, in the Greater Vancouver region, to feed on insects during the night. During the summer, about 400 to 500 bats are known to use this site, called a maternity […]

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