Bats typically eat insects, fruit, nectar, and pollen. However, three outlier bat species make meals of larger creatures: the white-winged bat (Diaemus youngi), the hairy-legged bat (Diphylla ecaudata ...

But for extremely high frequencies we’ll want to take a step into the world of bats. Some use echolocation to locate each other and their food sources, and bats like the pipistrelle can listen ...

CARLSON: How running a marathon could change your brain. BARBER: Fermenting food in space. CARLSON: And the mystery of how bats in flight avoid colliding with each other. SUMMERS: OK, I have to ...

Spix’s disc-winged bats shrieked when they were first shown mealworms, a new food for them. Were they alarmed, or were they communicating their excitement to their fellow bats? Elisabeth King ...

If a bat returns to the roost hungry, others may regurgitate a blood meal to get them through the night. Such food sharing happens between bats who are related — such as mothers and their ...

The scientific team compared the foraging efficiency of “networked” bats and of individual hunters as a function of group size and food distribution. In order to achieve this, they used a ...

In addition to keeping us safe from disease-spreading insects, bats also protect our food from agricultural pests, saving farmers more than $3.7 billion annually in North America, according to the ...

Using a dataset that spans decades, the researchers demonstrated how climate change and deforestation have shifted the behavior of bats in Australia such that the animals spend more time in urban and ...