Bats evolved the ability of powered flight more than 50 million years ago. The modern bat is
an efficient flyer and recent research on bat flight has revealed many intriguing facts. By …

Evolution has endowed vertebrates with the remarkable tactile ability to explore the world
through the perception of physical force. Yet the sense of touch remains one of the least well …

Bats are the only mammals capable of powered flight, and they perform impressive aerial
maneuvers like tight turns, hovering, and perching upside down. The bat wing contains five …

Gliding locomotion has convergently evolved in multiple vertebrate and invertebrate taxa,
spanning terrestrial and aquatic animals. The selective pressures attributed to the evolution …

Flight maneuvers require rapid sensory integration to generate adaptive motor output. Bats
achieve remarkable agility with modified forelimbs that serve as airfoils while retaining …

In their 1960 paper about bats using echolocation to find and track flying insects, Donald R.
Griffin, Fredric A. Webster and Charles R. Michael (Animal Behaviour, 8, 141–154) changed …

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Bats are diverse, speciose, and inhabit most of earth's habitats, aided by powered flapping
flight. The many traits that enable flight in these mammals have long attracted popular and …

Millions of bats are killed at wind energy facilities worldwide, yet the behavioural
mechanisms underlying why bats are vulnerable to wind turbines remain unclear …

SUMMARY Infection of North American bats with the keratin-digesting fungus Geomyces
destructans often results in holes and ruptures of wing membranes, yet it is unknown …