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  1. Animals

    Bats wearing tiny mics reveal how the fliers avoid rush hour collisions

    As thousands of bats launch nightly hunting, the cacophony of a dense crowd should stymie echolocation, a so-called “cocktail party nightmare.”

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  2. Animals

    How luna moths grow extravagant wings

    Warm temperatures, not just predator pressure, may favor luna moths’ long bat-fooling streamers, a geographic analysis of iNaturalist pics shows.

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  3. Animals

    Chatty bats are more likely to take risks

    Bats may broadcast their personalities to others from a distance, new experiments suggest, which could play into social dynamics within a colony.

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  4. Animals

    Putting vampire bats on treadmills reveals an unusual metabolism

    A bat gym shows that vampires are more like some insects, burning amino acids from blood proteins rather than the carbs or fats other mammals rely on.

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  5. Readers ask about glowing bat toes and a rare particle decay

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  6. Animals

    Bedbugs may have been one of the first urban pests

    Common bedbugs experienced a dramatic jump in population size about 13,000 years ago, around the time humans congregated in the first cities.

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  7. Animals

    In a first, these bats were found to have toes that glow

    Hairs on the toes of Mexican free-tailed bats fluoresce under UV light, a new study reports. The function of the toe glow is unknown.

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  8. Animals

    ‘Night Magic’ invites you to celebrate the living wonders of the dark

    In the book ‘Night Magic,’ Leigh Ann Henion writes of encounters with salamanders, bats, glowworms and other life-forms nurtured by darkness.

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  9. Animals

    How mantis shrimp deliver punishing blows without hurting themselves

    A mantis shrimp's punch creates high-energy waves. Its exoskeleton is designed to absorb that energy, preventing cracking and tissue damage.

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  10. Animals

    Tiger beetles may weaponize ultrasound against bats

    In response to recordings of echolocating bats, tiger beetles emit noises that mimic toxic moths that bats avoid.

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  11. Animals

    Frog ribbits erupt via an extravagant variety of vocal sacs

    Shape matters as well as size in the great range of male frog show-off equipment for competitive seductive serenades.

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  12. Animals

    Stray DNA is all around us. It could revolutionize conservation

    Environmental DNA harvested from the ocean, land and air can help scientists monitor wildlife. The challenge is figuring out how to interpret this eDNA.

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