Even on a good day the environment can be wildly unpredictable, from unexpected gusts of wind to food scarcity, and as humans continue to edge out the natural world, the stress on wild populations is ...

The sound made by a male big brown bat as it zeroes in on a bug that might make a tasty meal – if another bat doesn't get there first – is a sequence of chirps beyond the range of human ears. But to ...

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A picture is worth a thousand words—or in the case of bats, a rabies diagnosis. A new study reveals that rabid bats have cooler faces compared to uninfected colony-mates. And researchers are hopeful ...

As if one supra-human sense – echolocation – was not enough, it turns out that bats have another. Like birds, they can navigate by sensing Earth’s magnetic field. The only other mammals known to do ...