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Yossi Yuval

An illustration indicating a connection between a Christian monastic book and various rabbinical traditions on a spatial background

What is the connection between bats and Jews and Christians in antiquity?

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An extraordinary study by a researcher in the field of Talmud at Ben Gurion University and a bat researcher at Tel Aviv University has resulted in the development of an innovative tool for analyzing the social connections created between the sages of Judaism and Christianity in the first centuries AD
Urban bat (photo: Yuval Barkai)

Bats also lose their hearing but the process happens in a moderate way in relation to their noisy living environment

Two surprising discoveries: contrary to the popular hypothesis, bats do suffer from hearing loss with age, but they apparently have surprising mechanisms that help them slow down the rate of hearing loss
Fruit bat. Photo: depositphotos.com

The unique combination of senses that makes fruit bats excellent navigators even during the day

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Researchers found for the first time that bats navigate during the day using a combination of excellent vision and locating the echoes in their environment
Fruit bat. Photo: Prof. Yossi Yuval, Tel Aviv University

The city bat and the village bat - always move in a straight line

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A study of fruit bat movement in the Hula Valley. Photo: Prof. Ran Natan, Hebrew University

Two Israeli studies on the ability of bats to build a cognitive map are featured in the Science cover today

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Close-up of a fruit bat - in a new study it was demonstrated that these bats combine visual information with sonar information in sensing the environment (Credit: Jens Reidel)

In some situations bats prefer the sense of sight over the sense of sonar

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Robotlf navigates through an unfamiliar environment and maps it. Photography: Itamar Elikim

For the first time: a bat-like ground robot that navigates using only the sense of sound

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Researchers from Tel Aviv University succeeded in deciphering the language of bats, and extracting information from the tweets they tweet to each other in their caves

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A flock of bats. Photo: shutterstock

Why do bats hunt in flocks?

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Bat - from Wikipedia

Research in bats reveals the most effective method for locating a moving target

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