Bats have longer memories than you might think. The fringe-lipped bat (Trachops cirrhosus) feeds on insects and frogs, which it finds by following the sound of their mating calls. These bats have ...

Frog-eating bats trained by researchers to associate a phone ringtone with a tasty treat were able to remember what they learned for up to four years in the wild, new research has found. Frog-eating ...

Long-term memory allows not only people to acquire skills that rarely have to be relearned, such as riding a bicycle, but certain bats may also have that capacity. Biologist M. May Dixon of the ...

A fringe-lipped bat, Trachops cirrhosus, approaches a Fitzinger's robber frog, Craugastor fitzingeri, in Panama. This species of bat eavesdrops on the mating calls that male frogs produce to attract ...

Biologists attached tiny recording devices that looked like mini backpacks to bats. What they found revealed a surprising ...

A study coauthored by Assistant Professor of Biology Patricia Jones has found that bats may have a much longer-term memory than previously thought. The paper, published last month in Current Biology, ...

Wild bats trained to link a specific phone ringtone with a food reward can remember the sound for more than four years, new research suggests. This would put their long-term memory skills on par with ...

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Deep into the Panamanian night, the forest hums with sound. Chirping insects form a steady backdrop, rain softly trickles from leaves. Somewhere above ...

image: Frog-eating bats trained by researchers to associate a phone ringtone with a tasty treat were able to remember what they learned for up to four years in the wild, new Ohio State University ...

A fringe-lipped bat, Trachops cirrhosus, responds to the calls of the túngara frog, Engystomops pustulosus, one of its preferred prey species. First, the bat hears the call of a single male túngara ...