Published 5/29/2009
at Scientific American - Environment
When last we wrote about the Christmas Island pipistrelle bat (Pipistrellus murrayi), things didn't look good for this rare species that is both tiny in size and in population. Just 20 or so of the microbats remain in the world, and conservationists hoped to capture the remaining wild population and start a captive-breeding program, a last-gasp chance to save the species for extinction. [More]
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