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Many bat species native to Germany, such as the Leisler's bat, are forest specialists. However, as it is becoming increasingly hard for them to find tree hollows in forest plantations, they are moving to settlements instead.
Texas is the "battiest" state, home to 32 of the country's 47 bat species—and in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, nowhere may prove that better than the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. A recent acoustic survey found the Botanic Garden ...
Bats are known as natural hosts for highly pathogenic viruses such as MERS- and SARS-related coronaviruses, as well as the Marburg and Nipah viruses. In contrast to the severe and often fatal disease outcomes these viruses ...
Just as human infants rely on their environment and social interactions to acquire speech, bat pups depend on their social environment for vocal learning. New research reveals that in the bat species Saccopteryx bilineata, ...
The ancestor of the virus that causes COVID-19 left its point of origin in Western China or Northern Laos just several years before the disease first emerged in humans up to 2,700 kilometers away in Central China, according ...
The ambient temperature has a profound impact on the physiology and behavior of most species. In regions where individuals rely on low temperatures to hibernate effectively, global warming is likely to significantly affect ...
The ability to quickly recognize sounds, particularly the vocalizations made by other animals, is known to contribute to the survival of a wide range of species. This ability is supported by a process known as categorical ...
Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) found that the fringe-lipped bat, known to eavesdrop on frog and toad mating calls to find its prey, learns to distinguish between palatable and unpalatable ...
A team of mechanical and biological engineers at Cornell University and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Brown University and Virginia Tech has learned how some bats are able to multitask while drinking water ...
Why bats can harbor viruses like hantavirus and coronavirus—pathogens that are highly dangerous to humans—without becoming ill themselves has long puzzled scientists, yet the answer may be key to preventing outbreaks and ...
