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While some wildlife species thrive well in cities, it's harder for large, insectivorous bat species to find enough food. To get their fill, city-dwelling common noctules (Nyctalus noctula) have to hunt longer than their rural counterparts and yet they catch fewer insects. While rural bats hunt together, their urban counterparts regularly forage alone. These findings, published in the journal Global Change Biology, are the results of a new investigation led by PD Dr. Christian Voigt and Dr. Laura Stidsholt from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW).

A new study suggests that bats have a wide range of jaw form, size, tooth number, and tooth position, all of which are highly tuned to take advantage of different food sources. Read more here.

Some giant bats are even larger than humans. Click to read more. Giant bats may have been a figment of the imagination in the past but discoveries in the past century suggest they are real.

Vampire bats are the only existing mammals that can survive on blood alone. Vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) have been shown in countless movies under the "Dracula" franchise or anything involving vampires.

A severely endangered species of bats that had not been seen in 40 years has been discovered in Rwanda, thrilling environmentalists who had believed it was already gone