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Reveal the bat's secret of flying
It's interesting, but bats use aerodynamic mechanisms like insects to hover in the air, scientists said.
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'Bat technology' helps detect tumors
Scottish scientists hope to create radar devices that function like bats. This device will be very effective in locating and identifying tumors hidden deep inside a huma…
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Learn bat language
According to US scientists, understanding the mechanism that bats use to communicate with each other by sound can help find new therapies to treat language disorders in…
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The bat's breath reveals the uniformity of the latest victim of the Devil's Bat
Devil bats living in Latin America have turned to animal blood meals instead of tropical mammals,
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Detecting deadly virus in the bat
Scientists have found deadly Marburg virus in a fruit-eating bat in Africa. This is the first time this virus has been detected in an animal other than the monkey.
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Long tongue bats: speed champion digest food!
Long tongue bat (Glossophaga soricina) is known to be the smallest mammal in the world, with a body mass of less than 10g, and is a species that speeds up food digestion
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How do other flying bats look like?
While birds have the most popular flying technique in vertebrates, bats can still fly easily without feathers. Swedish researcher Anders Hedenstrom and colleagues at Lun…
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Flowers born to seduce birds
The different shapes of tropical flowers, from blooming flowers to elongated pipes, are to help birds and bats easily put the beak in to pollinate flowers. It is the div…
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Bats also eat snacks
Some people have sweet cravings after drinking too much alcohol. And according to a new report last Sunday by Professor Francisco Sanchez of Ben-Gurion University in the…
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Discovered bats have a record long tongue
Anoura fistulata, a very rare bat species in Ecuador, has developed its tongue with an impressive length, when it is half as long as its body length, used to extract hon…
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Unknown things about bats
According to a study published in the British journal Nature, a group of scientists from Princeton University (USA) said in addition to the ability to locate by sound, l…
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Discover big gray nose bat species in Vietnam
MSc Vu Dinh Thong, a researcher on bat species of the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology) said he has discovered a…
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Every night, many mosquito-eating bats?
Master Vu Dinh Thong - a bat expert from the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology) - said that there is a little know…
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Bats also speak triplets
Talking triplets is the basic language in newly learned babies ... and bats. According to the German magazine Naturwissenschaften, dictionaries will add mammals to this…
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Into the forest, catch bats
Master Vu Dinh Thong, a young scientist who specializes in bat research, reveals something about studying bats in Vietnam. With nearly 10 years of experience in research…