An increasingly asked question is' can we confidently link bats with emerging viruses?'. No,
or not yet, is the qualified answer based on the evidence available. Although more than 200 …

We raise and explore possible answers to three questions about the evolution and ecology
of silent flight of owls:(1) do owls fly silently for stealth, or is it to reduce self-masking …

How animals navigate over large-scale environments remains a riddle. Specifically, it is
debated whether animals have cognitive maps. The hallmark of map-based navigation is the …

Substantial evidence now supports the hypothesis that the common ancestor of bats was
nocturnal and capable of both powered flight and laryngeal echolocation. This scenario …

How animals integrate information from various senses to navigate and generate
perceptions is a fundamental question. Bats are ideal animal models to study multisensory …

ABSTRACT Old World fruit bats (Chiroptera: Yinpterochiroptera: Pteropodidae) are a diverse
radiation endemic to the tropics of Africa, Asia, Australia, and nearby island archipelagos …

Mutualisms between plants and animals shape the world's ecosystems [1, 2]. In such
interactions, achieving contact with the partner species is imperative. Plants regularly …

The study of inter-sensory integration has focused largely on how different sensory
modalities are weighted and combined in perception [1–3]. However, the extent to which …

There are at least eight ways that wings potentially produce sound. Five mechanisms are
aerodynamic sounds, created by airflow, and three are structural sound created by …

Background The hyolaryngeal apparatus generates biosonar pulses in the laryngeally
echolocating bats. The cartilage and muscles comprising the hyolarynx of laryngeally …