These Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus), unlike most other species of bats, are diurnal and have great vision. But they aren’t just using their eyesight as they forage for ripe fruit, ...

They were looking over photos from their latest study of Egyptian fruit bats when they noticed one with its mouth slightly parted and upturned. “When an Egyptian fruit bat is smiling ...

A team of researchers at Tel Aviv University has found that Egyptian fruit bats use echolocation during daylight hours even though they have good eyesight. In their paper published in the journal ...

Egyptian fruit bat pups steer echolocation beams from day zero by Bob Yirka , Phys.org Credit: Mickey Samuni-Blank, CC BY-SA 3.0 ...

The nocturnal exhibit at the Lake Superior Zoo is home to 12 Egyptian fruit bats and two African straw-colored fruit bats. Fruit bats eat fruit, as you probably can guess. This differs from ...

The Egyptian fruit bat is a highly social mammal that roosts (and argues) in crowded colonies. Michal Samuni-Blank Plenty of animals communicate with one another, at least in a general way ...

Yossi Yovel of Tel Aviv University and his colleagues used GPS trackers to track Egyptian fruit bats that were kept free at the university's I. Meyer Seagulls Zoo to investigate how the bats ...