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Volume 54: No. 1 Spring 2013 Bat Research News BAT RESEARCH NEWS VOLUME 54: NO. 1 SPRING 2013 BAT RESEARCH NEWS VOLUME 54: NUMBER 1 SPRING 2013 Table of Contents Table of Contents . i Letters to the Editor An Apparent Attack on a Tricolored Bat (Perimyotis subflavus) by a Hoary Bat (Lasiurus cinereus) in Northern Ohio Timothy J. Krynak and Jeffery A. Riebe . 1 Leucistic Coloration in Two Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus) in Atlantic Canada Alicia Irwin, Lynne Burns, Jordi Segers, Laura Johnson, Amanda Lowe, Joseph Poissant, and Hugh Broders . 3 Recent Literature Jacques Veilleux . 7 Announcement—Thomas H. Kunz Fund in Biology . 15 Announcements and Future Meetings . 16 VOLUME 54: NUMBER 2 SUMMER 2013 Table of Contents Table of Contents . i The Alternative Host Hypothesis and Potential Virulence Genes in Geomyces destructans Christopher Smyth, Sara Schlesinger, Barrie E. Overton, and Calvin Butchkoski . 17 Letters to the Editor Perhaps Tissue Samples for DNA Analysis of Bats Should Not Be Taken from the Tail Membrane Hugh Broders, Lynne Burns, and Amanda Lowe . 25 Recent Literature Anne E. Griffiths, Jacques Veilleux, and Thomas A. Griffiths . 27 News from Our Readers . 40 Announcements . 41 Future Meetings . 42 VOLUME 54: NUMBER 3 FALL 2013 Table of Contents Table of Contents . i Tents of Dermanura phaeotis (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in Tectona grandis (Verbenaceae) and Coccoloba caracasana (Polygonaceae) in Costa Rica Andrés Jiménez Solera . 43 White Noses and Windmills and Worms! Oh My! Virgil Brack, Jr., Dale W. Sparks, and Taina M. Pankiewicz . 47 Letters to the Editor Sugar Palms (Borassus flabellifer): a Potential Conservation Tool for Insectivorous Bats in Thailand Robbie Weterings and Joske Wardenaar . 53 Occurrence of Hoary Bats at High Elevations in the Southern Rocky Mountains Mark A. Hayes and Lea’ R. Bonewell . 55 Recent Literature Jacques Veilleux . 57 Erratum . 68 Announcements . 69 Future Meetings . 70 VOLUME 54: NUMBER 4 WINTER 2013 Table of Contents Table of Contents . i Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 16th International Bat Research Conference and the 43rd Annual Meeting of the North American Society for Bat Research, San Jose, Costa Rica . 71 Recent Literature . 227 Announcements . 235 Future Meetings . 236 BAT RESEARCH NEWS VOLUME 54: NUMBER 1 SPRING 2013 Table of Contents Table of Contents . i Letters to the Editor An Apparent Attack on a Tricolored Bat (Perimyotis subflavus) by a Hoary Bat (Lasiurus cinereus) in Northern Ohio Timothy J. Krynak and Jeffery A. Riebe . 1 Leucistic Coloration in Two Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus) in Atlantic Canada Alicia Irwin, Lynne Burns, Jordi Segers, Laura Johnson, Amanda Lowe, Joseph Poissant, and Hugh Broders . 3 Recent Literature Jacques Veilleux . 7 Announcement—Thomas H. Kunz Fund in Biology . 15 Announcements and Future Meetings . 16 Front Cover The characteristic white fungus (Geomyces destructans) associated with white-nose syndrome covering the nose and wings of a Myotis lucifugus (little brown myotis) in Barton Cave, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Photo by Greg Turner. Copyright 2013. All rights reserved. i Letters to the Editor Editor's Note: Unlike technical articles, letters are not peer-reviewed, but they are edited for grammar, style, and clarity. Letters provide an outlet for opinions, speculations, anecdotes, and other interesting observations that, by themselves, may not be sufficient or appropriate for a technical article. Letters should be no longer than two manuscript pages and sent to the Feature Editor. An Apparent Attack on a Tricolored Bat (Perimyotis subflavus) by a Hoary Bat (Lasiurus cinereus) in Northern Ohio Timothy J. Krynak and Jeffery A. Riebe Cleveland Metroparks, 3037 SOM Center Road, Willoughby Hills, OH 44094, USA E-mail: [email protected] Throughout most of the United States and Bishop (1947) noted a similar occurrence Canada, the hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus) is in New York that he believed was predation the largest species of bat (Barbour and Davis, and described a hoary bat that “bounce[d] 1969). It is considered insectivorous, and its several times, then settled down on the diet consists largely of moths, although other pavement, and grasped in its jaws [was] the types of insect also are eaten (e.g., Reimer et mutilated body of a small” tricolored bat. Orr al., 2010; Valdez and Cryan, 2009). (1950) observed a hoary bat in California Nevertheless, a captive hoary bat was chase and attack a small bat believed to be a maintained for 2 weeks on a diet of mice canyon bat (Parastrellus hesperus) and (Barbour and Davis, 1969), and speculation speculated that the attack by the hoary bat exists in the literature that these large bats was attempted predation or perhaps an effort may attack and possibly prey upon smaller to chase off a local competitor, and hoary bats bats (Bishop, 1947; Orr, 1950). are known to chase and bump other hoary On 25 August 2012, ca. 2230 hours bats that invade their feeding area (Barclay, (EDT), at North Chagrin Nature Center, 1985). In addition, Bell (1980) described a Mayfield Village, Ohio (41 24’ 41.2” N and hoary bat attacking on the same night a silver- 81 26’ 06.8” W), a park patron reported a bat haired bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans) and a “flopping on the ground.” After we arrived Mexican free-tailed bat (Tadarida on the scene, we discovered a female hoary brasiliensis) in Arizona, as the smaller bats bat (20.6 g, length of forearm = 53 mm) with were being released from a mist net, and in a female tricolored bat (Perimyotis subflavus; both cases, the hoary bat tumbled to the 6.9 g; length of forearm = 35 mm) clenched in ground with the captured bat. Bell (1980), the hoary bat’s jaws (Fig. 1). Both animals however, attributed this behavior to be the were deceased by that time, and a necropsy result of rabies-induced aggression and not a conducted at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo feeding behavior, because later that evening revealed that the hoary bat had a crushed skull he caught a hoary bat with blood on its and trauma to the shoulder (perhaps from muzzle and the animal eventually tested striking a vehicle) and the tricolored bat positive for the virus. Although it is unclear exhibited trauma in the neck and thorax, if the intent of the capture that we observed where it had been held by the hoary bat. was to consume the smaller species, it © 2013 Bat Research News. All rights reserved. 2 Bat Research News Volume 54: No. 1 Figure 1. A tricolored bat clenched in the jaws of a hoary bat. supports other observations that the hoary bat Bell, G.P. 1980. A possible case of inter- is capable of capturing other bats in flight, specific transmission of rabies in with the possibility of consuming the smaller insectivorous bats. Journal of animal. Mammalogy, 61:528–530. We thank R. Barclay, University of Bishop, S.C. 1947. Curious behavior of a Calgary, for encouraging submission of this hoary bat. Journal of Mammalogy, observation, and P. Dennis, epidemiologist 28:293–294. for Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, for assisting in Orr, R.T. 1950. Unusual behavior and the necropsy of both bats. occurrence of a hoary bat. Journal of Mammalogy, 31:456–457. Reimer, J.P., E.F. Baerwald and R.M.R. Literature Cited Barclay. 2010. Diet of hoary (Lasiurus Barbour, R.W., and W.H. Davis. 1969. Bats cinereus) and silver-haired (Lasionycteris of America. University Press of Kentucky, noctivagans) bats while migrating through Lexington, Kentucky. southwestern Alberta in late summer and Barclay, R.M.R. 1985. Long-versus short- autumn. American Midland Naturalist, range foraging strategies of hoary 164:230–237. (Lasiurus cinereus) and silver-haired Valdez, E.W., and P.M. Cryan. 2009. Food (Lasionycteris noctivagans) bats and the habits of the hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus) consequences for prey selection. Canadian during spring migration through New Journal of Zoology, 63:2507–2515. Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist, 54:195– 200. Spring 2013 Bat Research News 3 Leucistic Coloration in Two Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus) in Atlantic Canada Alicia Irwin, Lynne Burns, Jordi Segers, Laura Johnson, Amanda Lowe, Joseph Poissant, and Hugh Broders Department of Biology, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 3C3 E-mail: [email protected] Aberrant coloration in Myotis is rare, but unpigmented, although the eyes and rest of it can take many forms, ranging from the body were typical for the species. On the excessive pigmentation (i.e., melanism— left wing only, coloration changed from the Buchanan, 1985) to true albinism, which typical black, to a narrow transition zone of includes lack of pigmentation in the iris brown, to complete lack of pigmentation (Fig. (Brigham and James, 1993). Leucism, in 1). This animal was the only leucistic bat contrast, is partial or total reduction in noted among members of this colony, even integumentary pigmentation, while main- though we have captured 463 individuals as taining typical eye coloration (Van Grouw, part of a long-term study. 1997). There are two explanations for The first leucistic little brown bat reported leucism, one concerning development and the in the literature was from Illinois, and it had other concerning aging. If melanoblasts unpigmented pelage but normal wings (pigmentation cells) do not migrate or (Walley, 1971). Talerico et al. (2008) differentiate properly during development, recently reported aberrant coloration on only then parts of the body may be unable to the wings of a little brown bat from Yukon, produce pigment (Münzer and Kurta, 2008). Canada, whereas Münzer and Kurta (2008) Herreid and Davis (1960) suggested instead described a little brown bat from Michigan that white patches of fur were the result of with aberrant coloring of both the wing and aging, similar to graying hair or hair that pelage. In all four bats with anomalous wings grows over scar tissue.
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