If your sugar water feeder is drained in the morning, a bat might have stopped by! Here's why bats would drink from a ...

Under their supervision, Ralph Simon, an undergraduate research assistant, trained bats to drink from randomly placed nectar feeders flagged with various shapes. Rounded hollow forms proved ...

A nectar-feeding bat uses a blood-powered hydraulic process to control hair-like structures on its tongue to efficiently slurp up the sugary liquid from flowers. A series of rodent experiments showed ...

“I don't believe anyone suspected that the brush-like papillae on the tips of these bat tongues were so organized, let alone dynamic and moveable. The use of pressurized blood to erect the papillae ...

To set up the best feeders, follow these instructions: Make nectar by mixing 1-part sugar with 4-parts water (for example, 1 cup of sugar with 4 cups of water) until the sugar is dissolved.