The fleeting glimpse sparked a larger search project — and revealed a first-of-its-kind sighting. Mark Faux, a field technician, visited Toucan Ridge Ecology and Education Society research station in ...

In Tel Aviv, Israel, you might be privy to a strange sight: bats darting from tree branch to tree branch in broad daylight. These Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus), unlike most other species ...

The incoming information is processed fast and continually, allowing bats to adjust their course in mid-flight as they streak through the air after a mosquito or race among flowering trees.

A press release from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR): At the beginning of the major league baseball season, the DNR teamed up with the Minnesota Twins to launch “Break a Bat, ...

Gelambi’s dispersion study observed that pioneer species of trees were among the most frequently found in the seed traps set for bats. But whether or not the dispersed seeds actually germinate ...

Are you amazed at the number of bats major league baseball players break these days? Well, the bat manufacturers aren’t the only ones smiling when it happens. At the beginning of the major ...

Medellín suspects that woolly bats in the wild hang out on tree trunks when hunting, listening for the scuttling footsteps of rodents or reptiles, or the sound of another bat’s wings.

Some bats prefer to roost in barns, attics, caves or abandoned mines, those shelters providing safety from predators, protection from fluctuations in weather, and seclusion for rearing the young.

Some experts say planted tree patches are better attractants; others say combined methods may work best. See All Key Ideas Attracting seed-dispersing bats to degraded landscapes and aiding in ...