Workers of Bat Rehab Center Feldman Ecopark (Anton Vlaschenko, Victor Kovalovov, Ihor Tovstukha) and volunteer of Center (Kseniia Kravchenko) took a part in German conference, devoted to study of bats (Deutsches Treffen fur Fledermausforschung). This conference took place from 12 to 14 January 2018 at Youth Education Center “Blossin” near Berlin.
Workers of Center presented two posters with results of unique surveys, conducted in collaboration with German scientists. The first project was devoted to studying of bat immunity. Actually, bat immunity is the most hidden and unrevealed field of their biology. Beside this, bats immunity is supposed to be connected with a longevity of bats. This research, conducted by workers of Bat Rehab Center, is the first work about bat immunity in Ukraine.
The second poster showed an analysis of winter structure of Common Noctule bats in Kharkiv for the long-termed period. This work included various modern approaches. One of them is an assessment of stable hydrogen isotopes quantity. This analysis was conducted in Berlin Zoology Institute (IZW).
Generally, there were more than 100 participants on German conference from various European, Asian and African countries. The most number of talks was devoted to studying of bats in Central America and South-Eastern Asia and the working language was English
