Rachel Blakey
Assistant Professor of Global Change Biology at Cal Poly Pomona who studies bats and wildlife responses to fire, drought, and urbanization; runs the Blakey Lab.
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Oct 31, 2026
Rachel BlakeyGUEST
there are a lot of bats out there that have actually huge feet that use a behavior called trawling.
Rachel BlakeyGUEST
So they'll actually fly just above the water and they'll skim their feet through the water and they'll pick up invertebrates and fish.
Rachel BlakeyGUEST
So the Eumamyotis, although we haven't observed it trawling, does forage almost exclusively over water.