A researcher holds a pallid bat (Antrozous pallidus) in El Cañon de Guadalupe in Baja California, Mexico. (Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez / UCL/University of Cambridge) If you’re looking for bats, ...

“Bats get along remarkably well. In fact, some bat species are models for animal friendship. The scariest bat species you can think of, the vampire bat, is currently being studied as a model for ...

To locate food, bats make calls and listen for the echoes that return. Being able to echolocate has allowed them to become fierce aerial predators who hunt in complete darkness -- but this biological ...

Last summer, Lausen helped organize a “bat bio-blitz” along the Flathead River just across the Canadian border north of Glacier National Park. For four nights, teams of biologists and citizen ...

Some bats can imitate the sound of buzzing hornets to scare off owls, researchers say. The discovery is the first documented case of a mammal mimicking an insect to deter predators. Many animals copy ...

Bats mimic the buzzing sound of stinging insects to scare off predatory owls. This type of acoustic trickery, when a harmless animal mimics a dangerous one, has been found previously in some insects ...