Until 2017, a solitary wooden tower about 9 m tall, pyramid shaped, and supported by sturdy posts stood on a small island in the Florida Keys. A fishing lodge owner named Richter Clyde Perky built ...

Since 1929, Sugarloaf Key’s towering bat bastion has welcomed nearly every kind of creature – except the one it was built to host. The 30-foot-tall tower was never effective at attracting bats to eat ...

Bats use echolocation not only to navigate, but also to spot and capture male frogs that are in the act of courting. They found that all the bats preferentially attacked the model that inflated its ...