Anyone with a pool knows how easily animals can become stuck swimming in circles. It’s not uncommon to find insects, mice, ...

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 generate more diverse antibodies than mice, but overall have a weaker antibody response, according to a new study published September 24 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Dan ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Fruit bats can eat up to twice their body weight in fruit a day. But their genes and cells evolved to process all that sugar without any health consequences − a feat drug developers can learn from.

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💡 ...

At one point, farmers have the choice between a cave for Fruit Bats or for mushrooms. Check out this Stardew Valley guide to learn which is the best choice for a playthrough.

Bat poop coffee might be surpassing kopi luwak (the controversial civet poop coffee) in popularity among adventurous gastronomes and coffee connoisseurs. Once eaten by bats, coffee cherries ...

Birth of world's rarest fruit bat caught on Jersey Zoo camera 00:19. A zoo in the U.K. has captured a rare spectacle on camera – the birth of the rarest fruit bat in the world.