the ability to bear their young alive and nurse them - bats are the only mammals to truly fly. The commonly named "flying!' squirrels and "flying" lemurs actually glide or parachute by means of a ...

Flying animals ranging from bugs to bats use a common mechanism to maintain control in turns a discovery that reveals hidden advantages of flapping-wing flight. Having gotten its fill of nectar ...

When seen up close, bats are almost comically grotesque, and with their helter-skelter flying patterns at dusk, as they ...

But despite the animals’ prevalence, their migration patterns remain largely ... Originally tagged in Switzerland, the bats ...

Less well known are its applications in the study of migratory birds, bats ... birds flying over the Great Lakes, USA, using NEXRAD radars. Radars are particularly useful for studying patterns ...

“It was dusk, and there were two or three flying around our trees, darting and circling as bats do,” he told this ... reported that these migration patterns could play a role in the animal ...

Meagre pickings: winters on Hokkaido are harsh, but Siberian flying squirrels are expert at ... Gabon to the greatest mass gathering of fruit bats in Zambia, it was key that the sequences we ...