International Year of the Bat Seminar in NTNU
Bat was not the vampire; it was the environment protector in the forest. With the 2011 International Year of the Bat, NTNU department of life science held the “animal physiology and behavior adaption international academic seminar” in gong guan division on October 28th. Jen Huang-sun from University of Missouri, USA was the chairman. Scholars from USA, Japan, Canada, New Zealand and China were invited, hoped to deepen the understanding and experience of bat to the public.
In the seminar, scholars discussed the bat biosonar behavior, marmoset sense of listening, and sound production nerve. Professor Jen indicated that the bat could catch 500 mosquitoes in an hour. Bat could prevent past. Some of the hundreds kinds of fruit trees depends on bat to pollen. Due to the urbanization, bat’s habitats were seriously destroyed; half of the 1100 kinds of bat were facing extinction crisis. The United Nation environment bureau expected to get people know more about bat, understand the benefits they brought to the ecology and environment through the Year of the Bat.
The activity manager, NTNU general affairs director Wu Chung-hsin, who was also the president of Taiwan Bat Association, indicated that it was important to invite scholars to Taiwan and published our research, the research on animal behavior and bat in Taiwan could have chance to stand on the world academic stage.