By studying the wings of two species – the big brown bat and the short-tailed fruit bat – Zook showed that their wings have two types of hair. The first looks much like the fur on the rest of ...

But Boonman’s three fruit bats shut their mouths when they fly. They click nonetheless, and sealing their mouths with tape does nothing to stop them. Instead, they seem to use their wings.

The bones of a bat’s wing consist of greatly elongated forearm ... The rest belong to a single family—the Old World fruit bats, sometimes called flying foxes, which apparently lost the ability ...

Brown University engineers and biologists have joined forces to record the fine details of wing and body movement in bat flight -- together with the patterns of air movement that generate lift.

The design features a mother fruit bat hanging upside down as her cub peers out from her wings, evoking “the remarkable care and energy that this species puts into their offspring,” the U.S ...