June 24, 2020
Socially foraging bats may find food faster by listening in to the search-phase calls of their group members
Projects
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Gamboa
June 10, 2020
People who’ve attended Bat Night, the STRI bat lab’s open house in Gamboa, Panama, may have had the opportunity to hear bat researcher, Mariana Muñoz-Romo, talk about her favorite animals: the only mammals with wings. Now we all have a chance to hear her talk online.
May 21, 2020
Find out more about why bats carry viruses and how both bats and humans benefit from bat conservation.
April 30, 2020
Females may also be prone to predation as they move toward a mating call
April 16, 2020
To understand the effects of urbanization and forest loss on insects, Dumas Gálvez studies the ability of ants to defend themselves against diseases in the city and in nature
March 12, 2020
How do social interactions change in the face of illness? As humans face potential global pandemics we look to nature for examples. Close observation of another highly social animal, the vampire bat, sheds light on how interactions change—or do not change—as individuals become sick.
