{"id":15364,"date":"2024-04-30T10:19:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=15364"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:41","slug":"aidan-wouters-discusses-about-the-crucial-role-of-bats-in-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2024\/aidan-wouters-discusses-about-the-crucial-role-of-bats-in-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Aidan Wouters discusses about the crucial role of bats in nature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Aidan Wouters discusses about the crucial role of bats in nature\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Biology&#8217;s grad <a href=\"https:\/\/christinadavy.wordpress.com\/about\/people\/\"><strong>Aidan Wouters<\/strong><\/a> working with <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/christina-davy\/\">Christina Davy<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/jeff-dawson\/\">Jeff Dawson<\/a> was recently interviewed on iHeart podcast. Aidan is studying biomechanical implications of adaptation to ground-roosting in bats, with a focus on the eastern small-footed bat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/international-bat-appreciation-day-the-crucial-role-of-bats-in-nature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Bat Appreciation Day: The crucial role of bats in nature<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/962-the-rush-sound-bites-73948751\/episode\/international-bat-appreciation-day-168772357\/\">Click here!<\/a> to listen to her podcast hosted by science communicator Dan Riskin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/img_20220508_152210_1-1-400x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/img_20220508_152210_1-1-400x534.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/img_20220508_152210_1-1-160x213.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/img_20220508_152210_1-1-240x320.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/img_20220508_152210_1-1-360x480.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/img_20220508_152210_1-1-200x267.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/img_20220508_152210_1-1.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Biology&#8217;s grad Aidan Wouters working with Christina Davy &amp; Jeff Dawson was recently interviewed on iHeart podcast. Aidan is studying biomechanical implications of adaptation to ground-roosting in bats, with a focus on the eastern small-footed bat. International Bat Appreciation Day: The crucial role of bats in nature Click here! to listen to her podcast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grad-student-news","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16956,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15364\/revisions\/16956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}