Scientists recorded a small falcon catching bats at dusk, a rare hunting behaviour captured in unusual detail. The ...

Some species of European bats are known to attack birds as they migrate to Africa. However, they must trap them while in flight: a hard task for such small predators. The behaviour has previously been ...

Bats vanish the moment the sun rises, slipping into a hidden world most people never think to question. Their daytime lives ...

Last fall, scientists reported the first known recordings of greater noctule bats hunting and feasting on songbirds during ...

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, ...

Deep into the Panamanian night, the forest hums with sound. Chirping insects form a steady backdrop, rain softly trickles from leaves. Somewhere above a stream, frogs call into the darkness. But I am ...

There are three species of bats that eat birds. We know that because we have found feathers and other avian remains in their feces. What we didn’t know was how exactly they hunt birds, which are quite ...