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Fruit bats are wired differently A lot of the sugar that we consume winds up in our blood as glucose. Insulin helps us manage that glucose and get it to the cells that need it. But over the last ...
Python Cave is home to as many as 50,000 Egyptian fruit bats, and the predators emerged from the cave with a winged snack, which they either hunted or scavenged, in their mouths.
This Egyptian fruit bat, from a colony in central Tel Aviv, seems to be smiling, but it’s not an expression of joy. Rather, it is holding open its mouth so it can echolocate by projecting sound ...
More than four dozen Jamaican fruit bats destined for a lab in Bozeman, Montana, are set to become part of an experiment with an ambitious goal: predicting the next global pandemic.