Led by Dr. Giulia Rossi, the lab published a paper in Biology Letters in November 2024 on fuel use during running in vampire bats. That paper got a huge amount of press attention (see here, here, or here for just a few examples) due in large part to the wonderful photos and videos that were […]
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Congratulations to Welch lab PhD student Phillip Oelbaum on being named a 2024 Student Scholar by Bat Conservation International for his project, entitled “Foraging and roosting ecology of Phyllonycteris aphylla in Jamaica.” More about Phil’s project (from the BCI page): The Jamaican flower bat, Phyllonycteris aphylla, is listed as critically endangered and until now was […]
Read More Following a successful first field-trip in early 2023 resulting in a publication on two new breeding populations of the endangered Jamaican flower bat (Phyllonycteris aphylla), Phil Oelbaum and Jerrica Jamison, joined collaborator Damian Whyte and the Jamaica Caves Organization for more censusing of Jamaican “rat bats”!
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