A new study reveals that vampire bats mimic each other's calls if they are close friends, suggesting they have deeper social ...

The image above is a spectogram of an evening bat call from the spring 2023 Evanston Campus Bat Walk. Since bat calls emit at a frequency too high for humans to hear, bats are identified according to ...

Ever suddenly realize you had picked up certain words or ways of speaking from a close friend? It turns out that humans are ...

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 ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Mid-August is prime time for bat activity, and health departments in our region are seeing a huge increase in the number of calls from people who have encountered a bat in their home ...

This summer has kept Eagle County’s animal control officers busy answering the local version of the bat signal. The good news is that no captured bats have tested positive for rabies. Eagle County ...

ONTARIO COUNTY, N.Y. — The Ontario County Public Health says they have seen a rise in bat-related calls, especially in areas like Washington Street in Geneva. According to the Ontario County website, ...

Bats are an important part of our environment and provide us with many benefits, including insect control and fertilizer. However, bat populations in the United States are being threatened by the ...

BUT THE OTHER NIGHT HERE IN WRENTHAM. STOP. IT’S CUTE. OKAY. NOT CUTE. OFFICER JONATHAN CAULIFLORUS OFFERED A TEXTBOOK PERFECT CAPTURE AND RELEASE. I’VE NEVER BEEN TO A BAT. A BAT? CALL BEFORE, SO I ...

Nocturnal moths rely on hearing to escape predatory bats, yet how they respond to different bat calls has remained unclear.

For many nocturnal moths, hearing sound waves is a matter of survival in the night sky. Their ability to detect ultrasonic ...

It was more than two weeks before doctors even realized what they were treating, the fourth outbreak in five years of the lethal, brain-swelling Nipah virus in India’s Kerala region. By then, hundreds ...