Why some animals defy the odds to thrive in urban areas
Cities can be deeply unwelcoming places for wildlife. They are noisy, difficult to get around, full of people and heavily ...
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Fruit Bats Echolocate During the Day Despite Having Great Vision
In Tel Aviv, Israel, you might be privy to a strange sight: bats darting from tree branch to tree branch in broad daylight. These Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus), unlike most other species ...
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Rabbis, monks and bats: A religion scholar and a zoologist find a new way to map early Jewish-Christian relations
A method used to study Egyptian fruit bats help two scholars understand the connections between the Talmud and Christian writings. To find out, an Israeli religion scholar turned to an Israeli ...
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Scientists find brain’s social GPS in pioneering bat study
The finding could help us understand how animals and humans navigate social relationships, potentially leading to new ...
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Fruit Bats Argue Using Nuanced Communication
“Previous research presumed that most bat communication was based on screaming and shouting. We wanted to know how much information was actually conveyed.” Yovel and colleagues recorded all of the ...
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Discovery of new bat flu strain with potential to infect other species
Scientists have identified a novel influenza A virus (H18N12) in fishing bats in the Colombian Caribbean, revealing genetic ...
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Mapping Social Networks
Recently, researchers studying the social behavior of Egyptian fruit bats discovered that social behavior is processed by the hippocampus, the brain’s hub for memory and navigation. Specialized ...