Fruit bats navigate with internal maps: Scientists fit bats with world's smallest GPS devices
Monday, August 15, 2011 - 15:31
in Biology & Nature
Egyptian fruit bats fly dozens of kilometers each night to feed on specific fruit trees, making the return trip the same night. To understand how the bats locate individual trees night after night, scientists attached tiny GPS devices to the bats in the first-ever comprehensive GPS-based field study of mammal navigation.