Abstract:During winter in the southeastern United States cavernicolous bats, many species of which are susceptible to white-nose syndrome, periodically arouse from torpor and occasionally leave hibernacula. We investigated the winter movements and habitat use of two bat species persisting during the white-nose syndrome epizootic, the gray bat, Myotis grisescens, and the eastern small-footed bat, M. leibii. We deployed very high frequency radio transmitters on individual bats captured outside hibernacula to investigate … Show more
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