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

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 ...

To exploit a rich food resource that remains largely inaccessible to most predators, Europe’s largest bat captures, kills, and consumes nocturnally migrating birds in flight high above the ground, ...

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 ...