The researchers focused on leaf-nosed ... tiny bats. The shorter snout acts like a nutcracker: The closer to the hinge the fruit is, the more pressure is applied, so when the snout is short ...

It started in 2009, with a study that described regular fellatio among the short-nosed fruit bat. It earned its authors an Ignobel Prize in 2010. Here’s what I wrote about it at the time ...

And yes – there’s video evidence. Back in 2009, researchers observed extensive evidence of fellatio among short-nosed fruit bats, and concluded that in 70 percent of sexual encounters ...

The field research, which was conducted in Guangzhou City, China, reveals that in the case of the greater short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus sphinx) female species-on-male species oral sex now has ...

The greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum ... Found in South and Southeast Asia, the lesser short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) is a small species of megabat with a foxlike ...

Boonman wanted to find out more. Together with Sara Bumrungsri and Yossi Yovel, he studied the cave nectar bat, as well as the lesser short-nosed fruit bat and the long-tongued fruit bat.

The left panel shows inside the skulls of (left to right) the cave nectar bat, the greater short-nosed fruit bat, and Leschenault’s Rousette fruit bat. The right panel shows stages of growth of ...

but also that it never evolved in fruit bats. To navigate using echolocation, bats produce high-frequency calls in their larynx (voice box) and emit these through their nose or mouth. These calls ...

The short-nosed fruit bat Cynopterus sphinx is the first ... Researchers from the University of Tuebingen, Germany found that the greater mouse-eared bat could distinguish between their fellows ...

The video is sexually explicit and was edited and soundtracked by the researchers. Female short-nosed fruit bats have been observed performing fellatio on their partners during copulation.