bats – Go Beyond Discovery

Bat collapse led to higher infant mortality rate

Researchers have discovered that when insect-eating bats died, farmers increased pesticide use—leading to more than 1,000 infant deaths.

“K. picta should be roosting under the banana leaves of its natural habitat, not hanging dead on a wall as decor.”

The part of bats’ brains that controls vocalizations has similarities to the part of the human brain that controls speech, researchers find.

The way some bats protect themselves from the viruses they carry could lead to ways to prevent the next pandemic, researchers say.

“There are noctilionoid species that have short faces like bulldogs with powerful jaws that can bite the tough exterior of the fruits that they eat.”

The last week in October is Bat Week, so experts are separating fact from fiction about the amazing and beneficial animals.

New research in bats shows the same neurons that help them navigate through space may also help them navigate collective social environments.

A bat protein called ASC2 has a powerful ability to inhibit inflammasomes in mice, thereby limiting inflammation.

Researchers have sequenced the response to viral infection in colony-bred cave nectar bats at single-cell resolution.

Bats can teach us a lot about how to manage, and maybe even prevent, future pandemics, researchers say.