Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For this study, researchers set up thermal and infrared cameras to keep tabs on two bat hibernation sites in the towns of Segeberg ...

Bats are nocturnal hunters and use echolocation to orientate themselves by emitting high-frequency ultrasonic sounds in rapid succession and evaluating the calls’ reflections. Yet, they have retained ...

Some species of European bats are known to attack birds as they migrate to Africa. However, they must trap them while in flight: a hard task for such small predators. The behaviour has previously been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The lesser long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae) is a medium-sized bat found in Central and North America. The study was led ...

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To exploit a rich food resource that remains largely inaccessible to most predators, Europe’s largest bat captures, kills, and consumes nocturnally migrating birds in flight high above the ground, ...

Given how many species of birds of prey hunt bats, I’m not sure this race is the best one to be partisan about! I think flying mammals would also lose out to birds in a total biomass race. Maybe ...