• Scientific reports · Aug 2018

    Evidence for Ussurian tube-nosed bats (Murina ussuriensis) hibernating in snow.

    • Hirofumi Hirakawa and Yu Nagasaka.
    • Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Hitsujigaoka 7, Toyohira, Sapporo, 062-8516, Japan. hiroh215@gmail.com.
    • Sci Rep. 2018 Aug 13; 8 (1): 12047.

    AbstractSurviving winter is a challenge for endothermic animals living at high latitudes. In bats, some species migrate to milder climates in winter, but others presumably stay and hibernate in thermally buffered roosts. However, we know little about where, or in what roosts bats hibernate. Ussurian tube-nosed bats (Murina ussuriensis) have occasionally been observed under or near the surface of snow. We collected the details of those accounts and used our own observations to conclude that these bats hibernate in snow. To our knowledge, this is the first evidence of hibernation in snow for bats, and second for mammals, following polar bears (Ursus maritimus) denning in snow.

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