Some species of European bats are known to attack birds as they migrate to Africa. However, they must trap them while in flight: a hard task for such small predators. The behaviour has previously been ...

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An experiment with fake frogs shows how certain bats adjust their hunting technique to compensate for unnatural noises. Humankind is loud, and research already suggests that birds alter their singing ...

Foraging greater mouse-eared bats invest more resources in hunting large, difficult-to-catch, ground-dwelling insects over smaller, more easily caught flying insects, despite a greater risk of failure ...

Bats are relentless aerial hunters, using sonar so precise they can lock onto prey within 3 degrees of its exact position.

In the arms race between predators and prey, each evolves more and more sophisticated ways of catching or escaping from the other. Rachel Page, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research ...

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As creatures of the night, bats face a unique challenge—locating and hunting down prey in the pitch black. The flying mammals have evolved one excellent solution: Echolocation, in which they send out ...

Bats are some of the most misunderstood creatures on Earth. Their “agents of darkness and evil” persona really could not be further from the truth. These fuzzy mammals are social, clever, and helpful.

In one of nature’s crueler fatal-attraction scenarios, a male túngara frog’s mating call also attracts frog-eating bats. Any hopes a frog has of disguising his call against background noise will be ...