"Blind as a bat" is a common saying yet one that is false. All bats can see, even though vision may be less important than other senses. To locate and catch prey, insectivorous bats use an acoustic ...

Some bats, like birds, migrate long distances. But these long-distance bat migrations have been somewhat of a mystery to ...

“The common noctule … is a wide-ranging European insectivorous bat,” the study says. Female noctule bats migrate up to about 1,000 miles each spring to roost. Researchers used a tiny ...

All bats in Kentucky and Indiana are insectivorous, catching insects in flight or on plants. For example, one Little Brown Bat can catch 600 mosquitoes or more an hour making them a great natural ...

LIFE CYCLE: Eastern small-footed bats, like other insectivorous bats in North America, have a very low reproductive rate: one baby per year, born relatively helpless, as well as flightless, and ...

adding to the known range of this widespread Asian insectivore. The bat, distinguished by its nose-leaf that’s important for echolocation, was found in a cave in the southeastern Chittagong Hill ...

Bats play an important role in the ecology as insectivore bats feed on a variety of insects, even small mammals and lizards, and frugivore bats feed on a wide range of fruit as well as feast on ...