* 02.02.1937 in Halle/Saale † 09.12.2023 in Naumburg Bodo Stratmann, a very well-known bat conservationist from Halle/Saale, died in December 2023 after a long illness. He was one of the founder of the Working Group on Bat Protection and Research
Participate in the Leisler’s Bat Project – Where do the Leisler’s spend the winter?
New Issue of Acta Chiropterologica published Vol. 25 (1)

Content: Karyotype Evolution in Vespertilionoidea: Centromere Repositioning and Inversions in Molossidae (Chiroptera, Mammalia)Marianne Volleth, Klaus-Gerhard Heller, Christopher Tidemann, Hoi-Sen Yong, Martin Göpfert, Stefan Müllerhttps://doi.org/10.3161/15081109ACC2023.25.1.001KEYWORDS: Cytotaxonomy, chromosomal evolution, bat phylogenetics Karyotype Comparison of Five African Vespertilionini Species with Comments on Phylogenetic
Wind farms in forests: a worrying story from France
New download area on the bat observatory page
Conference of the Bat Markers of the Bat Marking Central Dresden (FMZ) from 03. – 05.11.2023 at Mansfeld Castle (Saxony-Anhalt)
BatNet: a deep learning-based tool for automated bat species identification from camera trap images

Automated monitoring technologies can increase the efficiency of ecological data collection and support data-driven conservation. Camera traps coupled with infrared light barriers can be used to monitor temperate-zone bat assemblages at underground hibernacula, where thousands of individuals of multiple species