In a groundbreaking revelation that challenges long-held assumptions about bat biology and nocturnal behavior, scientists ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University noticed a pattern: bats took fewer risks while scavenging in the winter, but became braver ...

The bats use the way the sun's light is scattered in the atmosphere at sunset to calibrate their internal magnetic compass, which helps them to fly in the right direction, a new study has shown.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We studied activity patterns of long-legged bats, Macrophyllum macrophyllum (Phyllostomidae), in the Barro Colorado Nature Monument, Panamá, ...

Animals can call on a multitude of sensory information to orient and navigate. One such cue is the pattern of polarized light in the sky, which for example can be used by birds as a geographical ...