Tag: bats
Why don’t fruit bats get diabetes? New understanding of how they’ve...
Wei Gordon, Menlo College and Nadav Ahituv, University of California, San Francisco
People around the world eat too much...
Bat pups babble and bat moms use baby talk, hinting at...
Ahana Aurora Fernandez, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
“Mamama,” “dadada,” “bababa” – parents usually welcome with enthusiasm the sounds of...
How deforestation helps deadly viruses jump from animals to humans
Amy Y. Vittor, University of Florida; Gabriel Zorello Laporta, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, and Maria Anice Mureb Sallum, Universidade de São Paulo
The coronavirus...
Social distancing works – just ask lobsters, ants and vampire bats
Dana Hawley, Virginia Tech and Julia Buck, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Social distancing to combat COVID-19 is profoundly impacting society, leaving many people wondering...
It’s wrong to blame bats for the coronavirus epidemic
Peter Alagona, University of California, Santa Barbara
Genomic research showing that the COVID-19 coronavirus likely originated in bats has produced heavy media coverage and widespread...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
