Tiny, fruit-eating bats take over the roost of larger, carnivorous bats at the edge of Panama’s Soberanía National Park.
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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.
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
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
How does having a third choice (a decoy) change the way fruit-eating bats choose what to eat?
The strong relationship formed between two female adult vampire bats may have motivated one of the bats to adopt the other’s baby.