Gray Bat

Myotis grisescens

Summary 2

The gray bat (Myotis grisescens) once flourished in caves all over the southeastern United States, but due to human disturbance, gray bat populations declined severely during the early and mid portion of the 20th century. At one cave alone, the Georgetown Cave in northwestern Alabama, populations declined from 150,000 gray bats to 10,000 by 1969. M. grisescens has been listed as federally endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service since 1976, and is protected under...

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  1. (c) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY), https://www.flickr.com/photos/usfwshq/5687233991/
  2. (c) Wikipedia, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myotis_grisescens

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