Bats eat the birds they pluck from the sky while on the wing

To find out, Elena Tena, a biologist at Doñana Biological Station in Seville, Spain, and her colleagues attached ultra-light ...

Batman eats Robin! Europe’s largest bats feast on songbirds mid-flight

Aarhus University in Denmark put trackers on greater noctule bats – the largest bats in Europe – and heard the distress calls of robins, before 23 minutes of munching.
Science News

Mic’d bats reveal midnight songbird attacks

Sensor data reveal greater noctule bats chasing, catching and chewing on birds during high-altitude, nighttime hunts.

Bat Week is coming in Connecticut. Here’s what that means

HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - Connecticut celebrates Bat Week from Oct. 24-31. The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said the week is meant to celebrate the role bats play in the world’s ...

Caught on camera: Rats snatching bats from the sky at city hibernation sites

For the first time, brown rats have been filmed actively hunting bats, snatching some from the air and capturing others on ...
NPR

To escape hungry bats, these flying beetles create an ultrasound 'illusion'

"Lots of things fly at night," says Harlan Gough, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Nightfall can set the stage for an acrobatic high-stakes drama in the air — a swirl of ...
WGBH

Bats fine tune their navigation superpowers to avoid crashes

KELLY: Bats flying out of their caves by the thousands, sometimes tens of thousands. Across the world, it happens every night. And for the bats, you might think it was a nightmare, too - a traffic ...
The Gazette

This ‘oasis’ comes with spooky bats

A big brown bat encountered during a bat population survey at Big Hollow Recreation Area in Sperry, Iowa, on Wednesday, ...