Bats are fascinating creatures and are the only true flying mammals. There are over 1,500 species worldwide, so they account ...

Bats are flying mammals you might spot and — rarely — hear at nighttime. Here are three common bat sounds — and what they mean.

As darkness falls and the air begins to cool, thousands of bats burst from the narrow mouth of their cave. The sky comes alive with their flapping wings, filling the air like a living liquid. It's a ...

Bat vocal communication and echolocation represent highly specialised acoustic systems that exhibit remarkable complexity and versatility. Bats employ echolocation as a navigational tool, emitting ...

This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as 7 Old-Fashioned Myths About Bats. The large flying fox (Pteropus ...

Bats exhibit remarkable sensory adaptations that enable them to navigate, forage and communicate in complex and cluttered environments. At the heart of their extraordinary capabilities lies ...

Most bats use echolocation to navigate and hunt, but some use their ears for another trick: eavesdropping. Hunt like a bat! How baby bats learn to eavesdrop on their next meal There are over 1400 ...

The Invisible Mammal,” a documentary by San Francisco filmmaker Kristin Tièche, explores the positive role that bats play in ...

KELLY: Bats flying out of their caves by the thousands, sometimes tens of thousands. Across the world, it happens every night. And for the bats, you might think it was a nightmare, too - a traffic ...

Aya Goldshtein, Omer Mazar, and Yossi Yovel have spent many evenings standing outside bat caves. Even so, seeing thousands of bats erupting out of a cave and flapping into the night, sometimes in ...