These species included frogs known to be palatable, toxic or too large to handle. First, the team confirmed previous studies showing that adult bats responded more strongly to palatable versus ...

If losing weight was among your 2023 resolutions, findings by researchers from the University of Kansas and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) may provide clearer guidance about the food you put ...

Three meal characteristics that can be a roadblock to your weight loss resolution include meal energy density, hyper palatable items, and the speed at which they are consumed Hyper-palatable food ...

Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) found that the fringe-lipped bat, known to eavesdrop on frog and toad mating calls to find its prey, learns to distinguish between ...

Research published in Obesity on 5 November 2019 has devised specific parameters that could help to classify certain foods as “hyper-palatable”, a term used to describe food that overpowers the ...

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 ...