Male Egyptian fruit bats will allow female bats to take food straight from their mouths and scientists believe they know why: the bats are trading food for sex. A study, published on Thursday in ...

Male Egyptian fruit bats will allow female bats to take food straight from their mouths and scientists believe they know why: the bats are trading food for sex. A study, published on Thursday in Cu… ...

Fruit bats hanging on tree branches in daylight in Bangladesh on November 6, 2023. Md Rafayat Haque Khan/Eyepix Group/Future Publishing via Getty Images Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

Fruit bats trade food for sex, study finds 'Females bore pups of the males they often scrounged food from,' researcher says. Phoebe Weston. Science Correspondent. Thursday 23 May 2019 16:00 BST.

Bats Get The Munchies Too! Date: April 4, 2007 Source: Society for Experimental Biology Summary: Many of us will be familiar with cravings for sweet food, after having overindulged in alcohol the ...

Egyptian fruit bats trade food for sex. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 05 / 190523143014.htm. American Friends of Tel Aviv University.

But, as the study now published in Current Biology shows, sharing food sometimes comes with other delayed benefits – including sex. To explore the food-for-sex hypothesis in the study, researchers ...

As shown in the video below, female Egyptian fruit bats will scrounge food from males, often aggressively. These interactions, which look somewhat violent, make a little more sense when viewed ...

Some bats like candy. Well, not the kind of candy you buy in a sweets shop. Rather, they like fruit, which is rich in sugar. “We call it nature’s candy,” says Wei Gordon, a biologist at ...

Bats often risk getting drunk off cocktails of alcohol that stew inside ripened fruit. And just as driving is dangerous for intoxicated humans, so is flying for boozy bats. IE 11 is not supported.

To explore the food-for-sex hypothesis in the new study, the researchers monitored producer-scrounger interactions of a captive Egyptian fruit bat colony for more than a year.