Because bats are small, secretive, feed at night, and are unfamiliar to most people, they are sometimes regarded as rare. On the contrary, they are found throughout the world except for certain ...

I’m not stranger to your run-of-the-mill neighborhood hjinks. TPing houses and ding-dong ditching were nothing out of the ordinary in my neighborhood. But until reading this story, I genuinely ...

Spix’s disc-winged bats shrieked when they were first shown mealworms, a new food for them. Were they alarmed, or were they communicating their excitement to their fellow bats? Elisabeth King ...