Amanda is an author of both scientific and popular literature about bats, including her most recent work, Standards and Medical Management for Captive Insectivorous Bats. Amanda is a licensed bat care specialist in the State of Texas, permitted to work with threatened and endangered species. Growing up she had the unique existence of bouncing between the life of an army brat and a farm girl, and -starting with a crippled chicken- began rescuing animals at around age twelve. In 1989, she found an injured bat on a hot Texas sidewalk. She nursed it back to health, and in the process this small helpless creature taught Amanda the enchanting language of bats, sparking her indelible love for this remarkable species. In 1994, Amanda liquidated her furniture business to found Bat World Sanctuary. She credits her military upbringing with giving her the discipline it took to keep the organization going despite tremendous odds, and credits her farm life for enabling her to love all creatures great and small.
She is the author of several publications ranging from a children's book to Scientific research. Her publications include...
The Bat in My Pocket: A
Memorable Friendship 1990.Lollar, A. Capra Press, Santa Barbara, CA.
The Wonder of Bats. 1993.
Lollar, A. Biology Digest. 18(6): 72-76
Rehabilitation and Captive
Care of Mexican Free-tail Bats. 1994. Lollar, A. Bat World Publication
, Mineral Wells, TX.
Observations on the
reproductive behavior of Captive Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana (Chiroptera:Molossidae).
1998. Schmidt-French, B.A. and A. Lollar. The Southwestern Naturalist 43(4).
Notes on the mating behavior
in a captive colony of Tadarida brasiliensis. 1995. Lollar, A. Bat Research
News. 36(1):1
Treating Blunt Force Trauma
in Bats. 1999. Lollar, A. and B.A. Schmidt-French. Wildlife Rehabilitation
Today. 10 (2).
Notes on the behavior of a
building-dwelling colony of Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis
Mexicana) in Mineral Wells, Texas. 2000. Lollar, A. Bat Research News. 41(1)
Communication among Mexican
free-tailed bats. 2000. French, B and A. Lollar. Bats. 18(2)
Captive Care and Medical
Reference for the Rehabilitation of Insectivorous Bats. 2002. Lollar, A and
B.A.
Schmidt-French. Bat World
Publication, Mineral Wells, TX.
Vocalizations associated with
social communication in the Mexican free-tailed bat, Tadarida brasiliensis
Mexicana (Chiroptera:
Molossidae). 2003. French, B; A. Lollar, et al. Bat World News 8(1).
Acoustic mimicry in a
predator–prey interaction. 2007. Barber, J.; W.E. Conner, et. al. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104 (22): 9331–9334. doi:10.1073.
Diagnostic and Treatment
Update for the Rehabilitation of Insectivorous Bats. 2007. Lollar, A. Bat World
Publication, Mineral Wells, TX. Rescuing the Orphans. 2008. Lollar, A. Bat
World News. 14:2
Chemically-Mediated Roostmate
Recognition and Roost Selection by Brazilian Free-Tailed Bats (Tadarida brasiliensis).
2009. Englert, A; M.J. Greene, et al. PLoS ONE 4 (11). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007781.
Male bats' mating songs could
be valuable for research. 2009. Patel, V., et al.
Bryan College Station Eagle (Bryan-College Station, Texas). Standards and Medical Management for Captive
Insectivorous Bats. 2010. Lollar, A. Bat World Publication, Mineral Wells, TX.
Recovery of little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) from natural infection with
Geomyces destructans, white-nose syndrome. 2011. Meteyer CU, et al. J Wildl
Dis. 2011 Jul;47(3):618-26
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