Imagine gliding through a pitch-black forest at midnight, dodging branches and catching tiny insects in midair—without using ...

When they emerge at night in large numbers, bats avoid colliding with each other by adjusting both their flight patterns and ...

Imagine being able to fly through pitch-black caves, dart between tree branches at midnight, and snatch a tiny insect out of ...

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 avoid collisions by tuning their echolocation during mass cave exits, a new Tel Aviv University study finds.

As they fly more than a kilometer in their smoke-plume formation, bat-to-bat distance leaves room to hear themselves echolocate. The paper itself could be an echo (with a twist) on a cocktail ...

When a colony of bats leaves their cave and takes to the skies at night to hunt ... Imagine you’re a bat flying through a cluttered space. The most important object you need to know about ...

Some might travel as far as 30 miles in one night, foraging for fruits such as figs and pollinating trees as they go. Gray-headed flying foxes are actually the largest native bat species in ...

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 ...

Here, visitors watch as thousands of bats fly into the sky each night, quickly breaking the calm with high-pitched squeaks and fluttering wings. However, Matthew Worly, a frequent bat house ...

For decades, Corey Tarwater and her research team have used mist nets by day to capture various species of tropical birds in ...