[ad_1] One morning in the Panamanian rainforest, a small fruit bat swarmed its rival. odds did not seem in his favor. The winged mammal, Seba’s short-tailed bat, weighed about halfRead More
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How Do Bat Mothers Teach Bat Cubs A Sense of Direction?
[ad_1] More than a year had passed since their project before they had enough data to realize that their initial results were not a mistake. The signals from mothers andRead More
NIH Says Bat Research Group Couldn’t Submit Rapid Virus Findings
[ad_1] The National Institutes of Health said Wednesday that a nonprofit group that has come under fire by some Congressional Republicans for its research collaborations in China did not immediatelyRead More
Newly Discovered Bat Viruses Offer Clues to Covid’s Origins
[ad_1] In the summer of 2020, six months into the coronavirus pandemic, scientists traveled to the forests of northern Laos to catch bats that may harbor close cousins of theRead More
How to Catch a Bat
[ad_1] “Treat bats as you would unvaccinated children,” says Winifred Frick, chief scientist at Bat Conservation International. Before Covid, biologists used to blow on bats’ faces to stop biting andRead More
Some Bat Babies Chatter Just Like Human Babies
[ad_1] Large marsupial winged bats are a field biologist’s dream. They hunt insects at dawn and dusk, staying awake most of the day and resting at night. “They like placesRead More
Bat brains built for navigation
[ad_1] They found that both in random exploration and during targeted navigation, such as a foraging task, bats retain a detailed spatial memory of both the environment and the pathsRead More