Bats live in a world of sounds. They use vocalizations both to communicate with their conspecifics and for navigation. For the latter, they emit sounds in the ultrasonic range, which echo and enable ...

Scientists discovered that a tiny Panamanian bat hunts like a lion, catching large prey using sound, patience, and precision.

UCLA bat biologist Joey Curti hopes his nighttime bat walks will educate people about the diversity of species flapping just ...

RESEARCH. BAT IT MAY SEEM SPOOKY, BUT THEY’RE ACTUALLY YOUR FRIENDS AS MYOTIS AND HOARY BATS, ESPECIALLY ARE ESSENTIAL IN DOWNTOWN LANCASTER FOR THEIR NATURAL POLLINATORS, AND THEY EAT PESTS LIKE ...

A guide to non-bat sounds recorded during bat surveys. This book enables the reader to be confident in recognising, categorising and dismissing not-bat sounds and offers knock-on benefits for ...

To find out, Elena Tena, a biologist at Doñana Biological Station in Seville, Spain, and her colleagues attached ultra-light sensors to Nyctalus Iasiopterus, the largest bats in Europe. What they ...

After decades of mystery, scientists have finally proven that Europe’s largest bat, the greater noctule, hunts and eats small songbirds mid-air—more than a kilometer above ground. Using tiny ...