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The same neurons that help bats navigate through space may also help them navigate collective social environments, finds a new study published today in the journal Nature. Many mammals—including bats ...

Israeli researchers have discovered that fruit bats seasonally change how they compete with other animals, namely rats, for food. Under the leadership of Prof. Yossi Yovel of Tel Aviv University’s ...

Some of the deadliest viral diseases that infect people are carried by bats, like Nipah virus (which has mortality rate of 40 to 70 percent in infected people), Ebola virus, and Marburg virus (which ...

Birds are the undisputed champions of epic travel -- but they are not the only long-haul fliers. A handful of bats are known to travel thousands of kilometers in continental migrations across North ...

Researchers used wireless neural recording and imaging devices to 'listen in' on the hippocampal brain activity of groups of Egyptian fruit bats as they flew freely within a large flight room. The ...