Scientists built a robot to help explain how a tropical bat spots insects perched on leaves using echolocation, a highly ...

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Europe’s largest bat species, the greater noctule (Nyctalus lasiopterus), has been caught red-handed terrorising songbirds in the night sky above southern Spain. High-resolution biologging tags ...

Some species of European bats are known to attack birds as they migrate to Africa. However, they must trap them while in flight: a hard task for such small predators. The behaviour has previously been ...