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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Scientists studying memory and learning in frog-eating bats have made a surprising discovery, demonstrating that they can recognize ringtones tied to food rewards up to four years later. This behavior ...

A fringe-lipped bat, Trachops cirrhosus, responds to the calls of the túngara frog, Engystomops pustulosus, one of its preferred prey species. First, the bat hears the call of a single male túngara ...

When the Tungara frog blurts out its mating call, an unsuspected eavesdropper listens in the trees above. W. Perry Conway/Corbis/Getty Images The frog-eating bat Trachops cirrhosus has an exceptional ...

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 ...