Individual signatures
A new social role for echolocation in bats that hunt together
June 24, 2020
Socially foraging bats may find food faster by listening in to the search-phase calls of their group members
Socially foraging bats may find food faster by listening in to the search-phase calls of their group members
Females may also be prone to predation as they move toward a mating call
Just as humans with their babies, adult female bats change their vocalizations when interacting with “babbling” pups, which could be interpreted as positive feedback to their offspring during vocal practice
The first winner of the D. Ross Robertson Postdoctoral Fellowship for Field Studies on Neotropical Reef Fishes, Floriane Coulmance, tests a new, underwater camera system to study the connection between hamlet color patterns and genetics in fish from four countries around the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.
Avoiding predators at all costs.
A 13-million-year-old saber-toothed marsupial skeleton discovered during paleontological explorations in Colombia is the most complete specimen recovered in the region
The first Sunday of every month, residents and visitors join researchers from the Smithsonian Bat Lab to get a close-up look at Panama’s bats.
Elizabeth (Liz) Stockwell sent this obituary of her father, STRI research associate, Henry Stockwell, in May, 2023. We published a brief mention at the time and include the entire text here.
Meet the 76 species of bats that occupy this small island!
Discover the captivating world of ant-following birds in our upcoming talk!