In this respect, the bat's nocturnal behavior provides certain advantages. Enormous numbers of insects fly at night, and with the exception of spiders, there are few competitors for such food. Other ...

Bats may broadcast their personalities to others from a distance, new experiments suggest, which could play into social dynamics within a colony.

The vibrant orange fur stands out against the darkness Our final challenge was to film the bats flying at night. For this we created an enclosure in the wild that we could light. Mr Tanon and the ...

Since the late 18th century, small colonies of bats have guarded the books in the Joanina Library at the University of Coimbra in central Portugal. The library contains 60,000 books that are all ...

In general, researchers don’t know how many bats fly over a single acre of farmland at night. Bats are extremely difficult to count during the day. They hide incredibly well in trees ...

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB) have made significant strides in understanding the long-distance migration of bats, a behavior that has long remained elusive.

The research revealed that when the bats migrated, they would fly up to 238 miles each night—nearly 125 miles longer than previously thought. The trackers remained on the bats for up to four ...