Episode 11: New Species—of African bats and how they help control pests, and how bats help make tequila!
New Species30 Mar 2021

Episode 11: New Species—of African bats and how they help control pests, and how bats help make tequila!

Dr. Bruce Patterson is the MacArthur Curator of Mammals at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He talks to us about his paper published in the April issue of the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society in which he and his coauthors describe two new genera and three new species of pipistrelle-like bats! We talk about the ecological importance of bats for pest control, how bats help make tequila, and how we might learn from bats how to live longer!

The title of the paper is “A revision of pipistrelle-like bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in East Africa with the description of new genera and species.” The paper is in the April issue of the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/191/4/1114/5903787?redirectedFrom=fulltext

To learn more about Dr. Bruce Patterson, visit

https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/staff/profile/66

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