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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'>Happy Bat Pollinator Day!</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'> Need some photos and talking points to help you share the good news about bat pollinators? See below (& attached photos) from our friends at Bat Conservation International.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'>· Nectar bats are specialized for visiting and pollinating flowers and are found in two distantly related tropical and subtropical families, American leaf-nosed bats (Phyllostomidae; 36 species) and Old World flying foxes (Pteropodidae; 12 species). Many additional species in both families are opportunistic flower visitors and pollinators. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'>· Worldwide, over 500 species of flowers in at least 67 plant families rely on bats as their major or exclusive pollinators.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'>· Nectar bats do not have color vision, yet have a keen sense of smell. Their nocturnally opening flowers are usually white in color and often produce a musky scent as an aid to their location.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'>· Nectar bats pollinate the flowers of many ecologically and economically important plants. Ecologically important bat-pollinated plants include many columnar cacti (sources of fruit) and agaves (sources of fiber and tequila) that are common in arid regions of North, Central, and South America. Flying foxes are also important pollinators of eucalypts in Australian dry forests. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'>· The list of economically important bat-pollinated plants in the New World includes members of Caryocaraceae (seeds are a source of oil) and Malvaceae subfamily Bombacoideae (sources of fruit, fiber, and timber). Economically important Old World bat-pollinated plants include members of Fabaceae (sources of fruit and timber) and Musaceae (source of bananas).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'>Several articles in the BCI BATS archives:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'>· Can Bats Save Bananas?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'>· </span><a href="http://www.batcon.org/index.php/media-and-info/bats-archives.html?task=viewArticle&magArticleID=1107"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'>Midnight Raiders of Arizona</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'> – Lepto yerbuana<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'>· </span><a href="http://www.batcon.org/index.php/media-and-info/bats-archives.html?task=viewArticle&magArticleID=1162"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'>Studying Bats & Cultivating Conservation on Aruba</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'> – Lepto curasoae<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'>· </span><a href="http://www.batcon.org/index.php/media-and-info/bats-archives.html?task=viewArticle&magArticleID=1151"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'>Finding Priority Sites for Conservation</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'> – Lepto nivalis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'>· </span><a href="http://www.batcon.org/index.php/media-and-info/bats-archives.html?task=viewArticle&magArticleID=1142"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'>Flying Foxes Rebuild Madagascar’s Tattered Forests</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'>· </span><a href="http://www.batcon.org/index.php/media-and-info/bats-archives.html?task=viewArticle&magArticleID=1027"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'>Bags of Bats, Fruits and Seeds</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'>· </span><a href="http://www.batcon.org/index.php/media-and-info/bats-archives.html?task=viewArticle&magArticleID=1015"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'>Restoring Lost Rainforests</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD","sans-serif";color:#984807'>And check out more education resources at BatsLIVE: </span><a 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