New research reveals that spectral bats, the world’s largest carnivorous bats, display affectionate social behaviours such as hugging and sharing food. Using infrared cameras in a Costa Rican forest, ...

After nearly 25 years of research, the mystery has finally been solved: Europe's largest bat doesn't just eat small birds—it hunts and captures them more than a kilometer above the ground. And it eats ...

In a dry tropical forest in northwest Costa Rica, researchers found a colony of rare Vampyrum spectrum, or spectral bats, living in a hollow tree. The team set up a video camera and over the course of ...

To exploit a rich food resource that remains largely inaccessible to most predators, Europe’s largest bat captures, kills, and consumes nocturnally migrating birds in flight high above the ground, ...

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The recording gives it away. First, a sudden plunge in altitude, then distressed bird calls before a prolonged series of chewing sounds. The largest bat species in Europe has been caught in the act by ...

The image of the bat with blood and feathers around its mouth perfectly illustrates the story now published in Science by an international research team. After nearly 25 years of research, the mystery ...