On Halloween, which was also the last day of International Bat Week, a hoary bat with a feisty personality named “Hoary Potter” defeated “Lestat”, the western small-footed bat from Idaho ...

It was a tense competition. Out of eight bats who were finalists in the Halloween beauty pageant, it was down to the dark-furred hoary bat from Oregon named Hoary Potter — against a western ...

Hoary bats are known for swift flight and wrapping themselves in their own tails to mimic leaves and hide from predators, the agency said. Because of this attribute, it estimated Hoary Potter ...