Researcher May Dixon discovered that frog-eating bats could recognize ringtones indicating a food reward up to four years later Vanessa Crooks Researchers used speakers to play ringtones to the bats ...

Bats have longer memories than you might think. The fringe-lipped bat (Trachops cirrhosus) feeds on insects and frogs, which it finds by following the sound of their mating calls. These bats have ...

It is late at night, and we are silently watching a bat in a roost through a night-vision camera. From a nearby speaker comes a long, rattling trill. Cane toad’s rattling trill call. The bat briefly ...

Wild bats trained to link a specific phone ringtone with a food reward can remember the sound for more than four years, new research suggests. This would put their long-term memory skills on par with ...

Long-term memory allows not only people to acquire skills that rarely have to be relearned, such as riding a bicycle, but certain bats may also have that capacity. Biologist M. May Dixon of the ...

Frog-eating bats trained by researchers to associate a phone ringtone with a tasty treat were able to remember what they learned for up to four years in the wild, new research has found. Frog-eating ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Sometimes love hurts - a lot. Just ask the tungara frog, a tiny native of Central and South America. The loud, low mating call made by male tungara frogs in search of a ...

A study coauthored by Assistant Professor of Biology Patricia Jones has found that bats may have a much longer-term memory than previously thought. The paper, published last month in Current Biology, ...

There are certain skills that once we acquire them, we rarely have to relearn them, like riding a bike or looking both ways before crossing a street. Most studies on learning and long-term memory in ...

image: Frog-eating bats trained by researchers to associate a phone ringtone with a tasty treat were able to remember what they learned for up to four years in the wild, new Ohio State University ...