For tips on how to flirt while wearing a mask, take notes from nature’s experts: male wrinkle-faced bats. The first video of a wrinkle-faced sexual encounter shows a male covering his face with a ...

A recent study explored the courtship of the elusive and understudied wrinkle-faced bats Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He has written about entertainment and ...

Nov. 9 (UPI) --When copulating, male wrinkle-faced bats pull down a mask-like flap of facial skin, according to new research -- the first-ever behavioral survey of wrinkle-faced bats in their natural ...

Even on a good day the environment can be wildly unpredictable, from unexpected gusts of wind to food scarcity, and as humans continue to edge out the natural world, the stress on wild populations is ...

Despite their huge presence in our cultural landscape and the news, we know strangely little about bats —especially their mating habits. But a new study published Wednesday in PLOS ONE has unearthed a ...

Males that allow females to take food right out of their mouths are more likely to sire offspring with their dining companions. A couple years back, researchers noticed that in fruit bat colonies some ...

A male wrinkle-faced bat (Centurio senex) seen dangling from his perch. Beneath his chin is a furry skin fold that he pulls up to cover the lower half of the face like a mask during courtship. Marco ...

Males may put a lot of effort into attracting females. Male peacocks flaunt eye-catching trains, but male bats, because they are active at night, may rely on females' sense of smell to draw them in.

Britain's loneliest bat may have finally found a mate just in time for Valentine's Day after flying solo for over 30 years. Just one male greater mouse-eared bat has been found across the country ...