In a dark cave in northern Germany, an invasive brown rat stands upright, balancing with its tail. Suddenly it reaches into the night sky, plucks a bat from the air, and crunches down on it. At first, ...

A new study from the School of Zoology at Tel Aviv University reveals that fruit bats employ a variety of strategies in their competition with other animals for food. The research team examined bat ...

Israeli researchers have discovered that fruit bats seasonally change how they compete with other animals, namely rats, for food. Under the leadership of Prof. Yossi Yovel of Tel Aviv University’s ...

Scientists filmed bats to see how they communicate while swarming. They found a surprise: In urban settings, rats attack bats. What are the... Bats carry lots of viruses – including variants of the ...

This is the moment a rat snatched a bat out of midair, before eating it. An infrared camera caught the rodent leaping towards its prey, almost falling off its perch in the process, and then running ...

Bats carry lots of viruses – including variants of the coronavirus that sparked the pandemic. But since bats don't often attack humans, the question is: What's the risk of these viruses being passed ...