It is Bat Week, an international celebration of the flying mammals and their importance. I visited the San Diego Zoo Safari Park to get some bat facts. Bats get a bad rap. Maybe it's Bram Stoker's ...
Bats get a bad rap. They’re tied to Halloween decorations, vampire legends, and the occasional panicked reaction when one swoops through a backyard at dusk. But beyond the spooky stereotypes lies a ...
Bats generate a measurably distinct aerodynamic footprint to achieve lift and maneuverability, quite unlike birds and contrary to many of the assumptions that aerodynamicists have used to model animal ...
Bats are masters of flight in the night sky, capable of steep nosedives and sharp turns that put our best aircraft to shame. Although the role of echolocation in bats' impressive midair maneuvering ...
On view in PEM's "Bats!" exhibit, Tony Rubino’s “Love Hate Bat” captures the strong, conflicted emotions that bats have evoked. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Halloween is creeping up, and the Peabody Essex ...
A: Mourning doves make several sounds. One is their wings make a whistling sound because of the vibration of the tips of their flight feathers when they take off. Also, the coo sound when in flight.
If you live in the Austin area, you're no stranger to Mexican free-tailed bats and their majestic flight from underneath the Congress Avenue bridge. So on April 17, National Bat Appreciation Day, we ...