KATIE KANE SHIPKA
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Bats: Our furry, flying mammals (opens the original)
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Attending The Ohio State University's lecture on "Ohio's Bats-the Master Class," with Todd and Ann Cartner, I realized how much I did not know about them. One important reason we should embrace bats in our community is pest control. Evening and night consumption of insects by bats is one reason to encourage bats to live near us as they help to keep insect populations in check. Their appetite for insects makes them an important part of a healthy ecosystem. Bats are natural pollinators. Seed dispe
Identifying animals through droppings (opens the original)
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Every animal, when crossing through a forested area or meadow, leaves a sign behind, whether intentionally or not. Deer leave eaten vegetation, broken branches and, if it has just rained, footprints can be found, all indications of recent animal behavior. Another interesting and useful method of wildlife identification is scat, or the droppings left behind by mammals. Scatology, the study of animal droppings, according to the University of Illinois at Urbana, can reveal what species were in the
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