bats, ecology

Contrary to what researchers had assumed, Egyptian fruit bats don’t rely solely on sight to orient themselves as they drink and forage for food in daylight. 

The abrupt termination comes after the research drew President Trump’s attention for its ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Bats use both echolocation and vision to avoid eating unpleasant fireflies.

A study suggests bats in Asia could have genes that protect them from the fungal infection that is decimating bat populations in North America.

Evolving Ourselves, The Man Who Touched His Own Heart, Bats, and The Invaders

Citizen-scientist data obtained through the U.K.’s National Bat Monitoring Programme show that populations of 10 bat species have stabilized or are growing.

Bat populations ravaged; hundreds of amphibian species driven to extinction; diverse groups of birds threatened. Taking risks will be necessary to control deadly wildlife pathogens.

An assassin bug, which some researchers are using as living syringes to sample blood from birds and mammals, feeds on a bat.

Scientists have made a definitive link between a recently-discovered fungus and a lethal disease wiping out bat populations in eastern North America.