Nature’s inventiveness knows no bounds. Consider the case of the nectar-drinking bat and the night-flowering vine whose lives intertwine in the lowland tropical forests of Central America.

Lesser long-nosed bats are migratory animals. They spend the winter in central Mexico then follow the scent of blooming flowers—often called the "nectar trail"—as far north as southern Arizona ...

Bats are incredibly diverse animals: They can climb onto other animals to drink their blood, pluck insects from leaves or ...

Hyderabad: Do you know that a wolf actually can be a pollinator? In the highlands of Ethiopia, when a plant known as the ...

The bat can drink up to half its weight in blood a day unlike other relatives, which dine on fruit, nectar or insects. Blood is low in nutrients and can harbour deadly viruses. Vampire bats have ...

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Analysis - Every year in the highlands of Ethiopia, when the rain returns after a parched dry season, a dazzling sight ...

Leaving south central Mexico in the spring, where the species is no longer endangered, the bats follow “nectar corridors” of blossoming plants to Southern Arizona. The bats arrive in droves at the ...

Cristobal Serrano (Spain) illuminates the darkness, revealing the scarlet tongue of a nectar-loving bat as it feeds. Photographing nectar-eating bats pollinating flowers at night is a challenge. But ...