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Category: Bats

Dr. William Conner and Dr. Nicholas Dowdy find bad taste in the moth

February 26, 2020
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Tiger Moth

Dr. William Conner and his co-researcher Dr. Nicholas Dowdy have found that certain members of the Tiger moth family do not duck and dive from predatory bats with the same vigor as their counterparts. Strikingly, we observed that moths with weak or no chemical defences often dive away to escape bat attacks. However, moths with…

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BBC features Nick Dowdy’s work

April 21, 2016
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The BBC recently featured Ph.D. candidate Nick Dowdy‘s work on moths in Central America.  He has some very interesting scientific findings on the unique defensive behavior of a particular Ecuadorian moth.  When threatened, it “uses an explosion of a sticky, wool-like material to defend itself.”  This has never been seen before in a moth species. You can…

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Science: Holy Blocked Bat Signal!

November 6, 2014
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Science magazine and the BBC independently featured the work of Aaron Corcoran and Bill Conner.  The Science article is titled: “Holy blocked bat signal! Bats jam each other’s calls”.  This article focuses on the research of Corcoran and Conner done in the southwestern United States on bat colonies and studies of bat calls.  The BBC also pubished an…

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Wake Forest PhD Nick Hristov Featured by NPR

September 10, 2012
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Nickolay Hristov, Professor with the UNC Center for Design Innovation and Wake Forest Biology Research Professor, does amazing research on bats. His work was featured on National Public Radio (NPR) weekly program Science Friday.  Nick received his PhD. from Wake Forest in 2008 and works closely with Professor William Conner’s laboratory.  In this Science Friday…

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Wake Forest PhD Aaron Corcoran Featured by National Geographic

June 15, 2012
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Aaron Corcoran’s research on sonar jamming moths is featured in the new National Geographic Special “Untamed Americas”. The footage is featured in the episode on Deserts. It is airing Saturday, June 16, 9pm EST. Link to the show page: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/untamed-americas/ Mexican Free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) migrate up to 1,000 miles (1609 kilometers) from their winter home…

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