Research teams studying bats and birds gather in Panama’s Soberanía National Park to celebrate the launch of a long-term ...

They found that flying and diving animals beat their wings or fins at a frequency ... beetles, mosquitos, bats, and birds ranging in size from hummingbirds to swans. The researchers also compared ...

Birds usually have a prominent breast keel where heavy muscles are attached; in bats, only one muscle is attached to the breastbone, the ribs are flattened, and there is some fusing of the vertebral ...

Tarwater’s team recently began a collaboration with the STRI team to allow it to launch a long-term census of bats using Tarwater’s same mist net locations, designed to complement the bird census.

These robots are “not quite as complex” as real animals and can’t move their wings in as many ways ... In this research, he is using both live birds and robots — like in his work with bats — to focus ...