Flag staff, Ari. Night flying creaturesEvidence has been vague.
Researchers say they now have a way to tell the species of danger, other than other bats, after leaving the nightmares from plants and residential Hummingbird feeders.
Bat Conservation International, a non -profit group that is working to finish Being beaten species South Eastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico and West Texas worked around the world for the wholesale swoubing campaign.
Samples of the wholesale that were left along the possible routes of migration were sent to a lab at the University of Northern Arizona, where researchers searched for environmental DNA-or Adena to confirm that the batsman Arizona They wander through and consider the region their part -time home.
Mexico’s long nose bat has been described as dangerous under the risky species Act in 1988, and is the only one in Arizona with federal protection. It is an important species for polling cactus, agao and other desert plants.
Officials from the American Fish and Wildlife Service and the Arizona Game and the Fish Department announced the discovery in late January. Although it is interesting to extend the list of Arizona’s bat species to 29, Wildlife Managers say that the use of this novel, non -Vasio method also deserves to be celebrated to eliminate it.
“If we were trying to identify species in the absence of EDNA, biologists could spend hours and hours trying to catch a bats of them, and nevertheless, you succeed There is no guarantee. ” For Arizona’s Games and Fish Department. “By giving samples of the environment, Edina gives us an extra tool for our tool cut.”
In every spring, Mexico’s long nose bats cross the long migration to Mexico in northwestern America in northwestern America, after the sweetness of its favorite opening plants like Brad Cumbus. They return to the same path in the fall.
The Bat Conservation Group recruited ordinary citizens for mission, and in summer and autumn, they gave them kits to give samples from bird feeders.
Inside the university lab, the micro -biology Major Anna Rally pulled out DNA from hundreds of samples and operated them through machines that eventually detect the presence of sons. One part of the work included a steady hand, in which the rally used a syringe to move the slim DNA into small glasses before poping into the Centry Fuji.
After the sample, after the glass vial, it took months into complex work.
Rally said, “There is a huge database that has a DNA setting of not every animal, but most of the species, and therefore we can compare our DNA settings that data from these patterns to us. Is in the base. ” “Like a little Google Search – you’ve got your question, you are asking Google, you plug it into the database, and it sits with you, and you have a bat like that “”
Kirsten Laur of the Conservation Group said that EDNA reservoirs have been successfully used to determine the presence of other types of wildlife in different environments, so the group suggested it to try it with bats. –
“They apparently give up a lot of spit on these plants and harmony bird feeders,” said Laier.
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Ekal reported from Las Vegas. Member of Corps, Gabriel Sandwal for Associated Press/ Report for the US State House News Initiative in Phoenix participated in the report.
