A new study sheds light on why North America's bats are dying in large numbers at wind energy facilities. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Using a novel chemical ...

The bats use the way the sun's light is scattered in the atmosphere at sunset to calibrate their internal magnetic compass, which helps them to fly in the right direction, a new study has shown.

Humans aren’t the only ones who follow traffic rules. Bats do it too, researchers report March 26 in PLOS Computational Biology. Scientists eavesdropped on echolocating Daubenton’s bats (Myotis ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Aim A global meta-analysis was used to elucidate a mechanistic understanding of elevational species richness patterns of bats by examining ...

Hood, W. R., Oftedal, Olav T., and Kunz, T. H. 2000. "Patterns of nutrient intake and accretion in a suckling insectivorous bat (Eptesicus fuscus): Is relatively late weaning in bats associated with ...