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. A series of rodent experiments showed ...

“And it had never been applied to nectar-feeding bats before, so it was pretty innovative.” As expected, researchers at Northern Arizona University found Mexican long-nosed bat DNA in the sample ...

After a night of searching for nectar, mother bats return to the roost to feed their babies using what National Geographic explorer Begoña Iñarritu describes as a multi-sensory process to seek ...

“I don't believe anyone suspected that the brush-like papillae on the tips of these bat tongues were so organized, let alone dynamic and moveable. The use of pressurized blood to erect the papillae ...

Most bats feed on insects, and they often use powerful, long-range calls, pumped out with every upstroke of their wings. Nectar bats send gentle but very sophisticated calls, which scientists ...

It took thousands of images over five nights with a different flower each time to get just this one. Nectar-feeding bats use vision, smell and echolocation to find nectar sources. Bats are some of the ...

And it is while searching for nectar, a liquid rich in sugars that serves as a food, which the nectar feeding bats extend out their straight, cylindrical and reddish tongue, on whose point there are ...