{"id":43005,"date":"2025-08-03T20:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T20:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43005\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T20:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T20:48:08","slug":"public-advised-to-give-young-bats-space-as-sightings-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43005\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Advised to Give Young Bats Space as Sightings Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/bat-bats-photo-courtesy-department-of-fisheries-forestry-and-agriculture.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Public Advised to Give Young Bats Space as Sightings Increase\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of the Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture<\/p>\n<p>This is the time of year when young bats are learning to fly and hunt\u00a0at night, so bat sightings may become more common in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>The government department responsible for wildlife says\u00a0when dawn breaks, young bats may not always be able to find a suitable hiding place to roost for the day.<\/p>\n<p>People should\u00a0watch for resting bats\u00a0and give them space.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife officials say one should never attempt to touch or\u00a0handle a bat, and if\u00a0visiting the Salmonier Nature Park, report any bat sightings to staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Photo courtesy of the Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture This is the time of year when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-43005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}