October 21, 2022
Celebrating International Bat Week, come learn about real vampires!
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July 11, 2022
Researcher May Dixon discovered that frog-eating bats could recognize ringtones indicating a food reward up to four years later.
March 23, 2022
Tiny, fruit-eating bats take over the roost of larger, carnivorous bats at the edge of Panama’s Soberanía National Park.
September 08, 2021
A mobile hearing test determined that the hearing sensitivity of Neotropical bats is associated with the sounds generated by their prey, demonstrating how hearing ability may relate directly to niche differentiation.
August 31, 2021
Colorful female Jacobins in the wild may feed more frequently and for longer periods than their drab counterparts
Similar to human babies, this bat species learns to communicate through babbling and vocal imitation
August 23, 2021
Long-term monitoring of the bat species Saccopteryx bilineata in their natural setting revealed that pups display babbling behavior strikingly similar to that of human infants
