Scientists are trying to learn more about how bats do it — and whether humans can learn from their sugar response. Some bats eat a ton of sugar and have no health woes.

You've probably heard the one about the bat and the mosquito. One of them can eat up to 1,000 of the other every hour! That's 12,000 per night! 4.3 million per year, even in a non-Leap Year!

It's a well-known fact that bats eat huge volumes of mosquitoes. In a given evening, an individual bat can dispatch 1,000 to 1,500 mosquitoes, using their famed echolocation ability, ...

Talk about a bat aftertaste. That strange looking photo you see above is a cane toad attempting to eat a bat in the Peruvian rain forest. Fortunately for the bat, the toad was not successful.

Meet the bat that eats other bats. Scientists are learning more about the rarely seen spectral bat, Latin America’s “jaguar on the wing.” ...

Bats are able to consume an extraordinary amount of sugar with no ill effects. Scientists are trying to learn more about how bats do it — and whether humans can learn from their sugar response.

Bats are able to consume an extraordinary amount of sugar with no ill effects. Scientists are trying to learn more about how bats do it — and whether humans can learn from their sugar response.

Bats are able to consume an extraordinary amount of sugar with no ill effects. Scientists are trying to learn more about how bats do it — and whether humans can learn from their sugar response.

Bats are able to consume an extraordinary amount of sugar with no ill effects. Scientists are trying to learn more about how bats do it — and whether humans can learn from their sugar response.

Bats are able to consume an extraordinary amount of sugar with no ill effects. Scientists are trying to learn more about how bats do it — and whether humans can learn from their sugar response.