A nectar-feeding bat uses a blood-powered hydraulic process to control hair-like structures on its tongue to efficiently slurp up the sugary liquid from flowers. Amid cuts to federal funding, US ...

Nature’s inventiveness knows no bounds. Consider the case of the nectar-drinking bat and the night-flowering vine whose lives intertwine in the lowland tropical forests of Central America.

but this is the first continuous recording of a bat eating entire leaves Elisabeth King Portrait of a Seba’s short-tailed bat, Carollia perspicillata. Mariana Muñoz-Romo Tropical bats eat ...

Cristobal Serrano (Spain) illuminates the darkness, revealing the scarlet tongue of a nectar-loving bat as it feeds. Photographing nectar-eating bats pollinating flowers at night is a challenge. But ...