Kerivoula picta portrait

Screeching Into the Void

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The Painted Bat Kerivoula picta elevated to an icon of haunting beauty, its fiery coat and poised screech speaking to natural wonder and ecological fragility

In Screeching into the Void, Rob Medley elevates the fragile Painted Bat—Kerivoula picta—to an icon of haunting beauty. Its fiery coat and poised screech speak to both natural wonder and ecological fragility, echoing the species’ precarious place between twilight and extinction.