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 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 ...

Longleat Safari Park is set to reopen its bat cave in early 2025. The attraction, which was closed in 2020 due to the ...

An Egyptian fruit bat feeds on a persimmon tree in central Israel. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 27 March 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Y.

Closed in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, work is underway to reopen the attraction with around 30 Egyptian fruit bats. Simon Askew, interim chief operating officer, said: “We have regularly ...

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 ...

Similarly, the Egyptian fruit bat's tongue was studied to understand the relationship between its feeding strategy and lingual structure. This research identified multiple subtypes of filiform ...