OREGON
illiam ShakespEAR, a female Townsend’s big-eared bat from Butte Falls, Oregon, defended her title for the second year in a row in the “Bat Beauty Contest,” an annual contest hosted by the Bureau of Land Management to raise awareness about bat conservation, reported. Townsend’s big-eared bats are noted for having, well, very big ears — ears that measure half the length of their bodies. The contest, which coincides with International Bat Week, accepts photos of. Not only do they keep the mosquito populations down, they look fabulous in the itsy-bitsyteeny-weeny bikini competition.
