Bats
How Egyptian fruit bats seasonally adapt behavior to compete with rats - study
Researchers at Tel Aviv University noticed a pattern: bats took fewer risks while scavenging in the winter, but became braver as spring approached.
Health officials concerned as hundreds potentially exposed to rabies-infested bats
Scientists discover 22 new viruses in Chinese bats
Disease linked to bat consumption claims over 50 lives in Democratic Republic of Congo
COVID-19 not connected to bats, Israeli biologists say
Researchers at Tel Aviv University’s Bat Lab attempt to rehabilitate winged creature’s much-maligned public image
Swiss bats host 39 virus families, some could infect humans - study
The researchers found one bat colony with a nearly complete genome for the virus that causes MERS, an infectious disease that can be transmitted to humans and for which there is no vaccine.
'Bats without Wings': A tour-de-force performance - theater review
Daniel Zehavi in a tour de force that fuses Greek tragedy with the poetic brilliance of Nisim Aloni
Fruit bats practice social distancing too
Tel Aviv University study that shows sick bats self-isolate could have far-reaching implications for origins of COVID-19.
Israeli scientists use bats to uncover neural code for spatial perception
The team's innovative experiment required the building a 200-meter-long "bat tunnel" – an elongated opaque greenhouse of sorts – on the Weizmann Institute campus, the first of its kind in the world
Bats 'know' the speed of sound from birth, TAU researchers say
What would the world look like if space was mapped not by distance, but by time?
Fireflies use invisible 'musical armor' against bats, study suggests
Because the sounds are ultrasonic, they cannot be detected by either humans or fireflies themselves.
By catching bats, these 'virus hunters' hope to stop the next pandemic
The researchers call themselves the "virus hunters", tasked with catching thousands of bats to develop a simulation model they hope will help the world avoid a pandemic similar to COVID-19.
Novel coronavirus hasn't changed much since bat to human jump - study
The researchers found that SARS-CoV-2 likely did not need to adapt much, if at all, to jump to humans.
New virus found only in Israeli bat with unknown human infection potential
The findings are significant as bats are reservoirs for emerging viruses, and have been attributed to virus outbreaks such as SARS, MERS and many more.
