A new study found that animals in urban areas give birth earlier than their rural counterparts. A research team at Tel ...

In Tel Aviv, Israel, you might be privy to a strange sight: bats darting from tree branch to tree branch in broad daylight. These Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus), unlike most other species ...

A recent study from Tel Aviv University found that Egyptian fruit bats living in urban parts of Israel gave birth two and a half weeks earlier than rural populations. This gives them an advantage as ...

A method used to study Egyptian fruit bats help two scholars understand the connections between the Talmud and Christian writings. To find out, an Israeli religion scholar turned to an Israeli ...

“We studied Egyptian fruit bats, which are highly social mammals, and focused on the hippocampus, a brain area that in previous studies has been shown to be important for memories of social identities ...

Photo of an Egyptian fruit bat. Sarel et al. report on a new functional class of hippocampal neurons in bats, which encode the direction and distance to spatial goals - suggesting a novel neural ...

This story appears in the September 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Several years ago, on assignment for National Geographic, I ventured inside a cave in Uganda to photograph a roost ...

“Previous research presumed that most bat communication was based on screaming and shouting. We wanted to know how much information was actually conveyed.” Yovel and colleagues recorded all of the ...

This is a photograph of an Egyptian fruit bat flying. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 1 Nov., 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Michael Yartsev at ...