If your sugar water feeder is drained in the morning, a bat might have stopped by! Here's why bats would drink from a ...

The Malayan flying fox has many names, including the greater flying fox, kalong, and large fruit bat. Its most accurate name ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...