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caption: Another fruit eating species, this bat is photographed using Infra Red light on an Infra Red sensitive sensor (to not disturb the bats foraging) while flying around a tree full of ripe figs. It can bee seen that it is a pregnant female,…

caption: A powerful predator with impressive teeth, Phyllostomus hastatus feeds on lizards., frogs, sleeping birds, and even other bats.

A pair of fishing bats are leaving their roost at dusk. This species roosts in hollow trees in large groups of up to 200 individuals.

This fruit-eating bat is taking off after it grabbed and ripped off a ripe fig fruit from a branch. The bat will now fly to a feeding roost where it will eat the fig by squeezing all sugary liquid out of it. The dry flesh and all the seeds will be…

Summary: Bats are an amazing animal group, that has reached a stunning diversity - almost 1000 species worldwide are described. They also reach impressive local diversity and hence offer a great opportunity to visualize mechanisms of biodiversity. On…

For a story on how proposed oil exploration in the Beaufort Sea, off Alaska's north coast, may affect the subsistence way of life for the Inupiat Eskimos of the North Slope region. For the Inupiat residents of Barrow and the other North Slope…

Sepa Tuai, 8, plays under the glow of a streetlight in the early evening in Barrow. For a story on how proposed oil exploration in the Beaufort Sea, off Alaska's north coast, may affect the subsistence way of life for the Inupiat Eskimos of the…

The inside wall of Lewis Brower's garage is decorated with drawings he made of all the animals that are part of his and his family's livelyhood. Brower works as a station manager at the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium but still relies, as does much…

Lauren Brower, 2, finishes her bottle between bites of Muktuk, an Inupiat delicacy of whale blubber and skin. Lauren's father, Lewis Brower works as a station manager at the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium but the family still relies, as does much…

Ned Arey lays out freshly killed and carved caribou meat on the porch of his home in Barrow after returning from a hunt 40 miles away by snowmobile. Ned's wife Dora says that when Ned brings home a caribou it saves the family thousands of dollars.