Social grooming is conspicuous in group-living mammals. Bats are gregarious and may groom each other, but the motivation for such social behaviour remains unclear. Here, we describe patterns and infer ...

Scientists observing the short-nosed fruit bat Cynopterus sphinx in southern China’s Guangdong Province report that the females prolong sex by licking the shaft of their mate’s penis during ...

Scientists have found another piece in the puzzle of how echolocation evolved in bats, moving closer to solving a decades-long evolutionary mystery. All bats — apart from the fruit bats of the family ...