Bats fly into the night from the Bracken Bat Cave in Central Texas on Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. Bat Conservation International, which owns the cave and 697 acres around it, estimates that there are ...

Across North America, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and other pesticides had a significant impact on bats from the ...

Bats, in particular, are natural hosts to some of the world's most dangerous viruses, including those responsible for COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), MERS-CoV, influenza A, and hantavirus outbreaks.

Island life has given the world’s largest bats their gargantuan wingspans, which can reach nearly 2 metres 1. Flying foxes, a group of some 80 bat species found on islands across the Pacific and ...

Python Cave is home to as many as 50,000 Egyptian fruit bats, and the predators emerged from the cave with a winged snack, which they either hunted or scavenged, in their mouths.

Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) found that the fringe-lipped bat, known to eavesdrop on frog and toad mating calls to find its prey, learns to distinguish between ...

The ontogeny of decision-making in an eavesdropping predator. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2025; 292 (2045) DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2025.0450 ...