It appears that the bats change the way they echolocate in order to gain detailed information about their neighbors nearby.

Aya Goldshtein, Omer Mazar, and Yossi Yovel have spent many evenings standing outside bat caves. Even so, seeing thousands of ...

Globally, caves provide important refugia for bats. The Grand Canyon, more than 400 km (250 mi) long, consists of steep-sided, rocky formations with hundreds to thousands of natural caves. Two of ...

While some bat species have seen up to a 99% population decline, Rafinesque's big-eared bat has shown a strong resistance to ...

Animals that are adapted to live in caves are known as troglofauna. Some - such as bats, bears and swiftlets - use caves on a temporary basis. Others reside there permanently, living out their entire ...

This bat is a tropical bat species, common in Southeast Asia and known to roost in large caves in colonies of hundreds of thousands to millions of individuals. Earlier studies showed that Mops ...

An estimated 6.7 million bats have died since 2006 because of an outbreak of white-nose syndrome, a fast-moving disease that has wiped out entire colonies and left caves littered with the bones of ...

That’s costlier and harms the environment. Bat poop is also an essential source of nutrients in cave environments supporting salamanders, fish, crayfish and other unique creatures. In less than a ...

These bats now die in great numbers every winter, and there’s no disagreement about how and where: from a disease discovered in caves only as recently as 2006. But rather than focusing on ...