Navigating, Decision-Making and Sociality, Studying Behavior in the Wild from Birth to Adulthood

Project Information

Behavior-Island

Grant agreement ID: 101001993

DOI

10.3030/101001993

Project closed

EC signature date 7 June 2021

Start date 1 August 2021

End date 31 July 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 000 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 000 000,00

Coordinated by

TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY
Israel

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (10)

Fruit bats adjust their decision-making process according to environmental dynamics

Author(s): Goni Naamani , Nitzan Shahar, Yoav Ger and Yossi Yovel
Published in: BMC Biology, 2023, ISSN 1741-7007
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-023-01774-0

Bats experience age-related hearing loss (presbycusis)

Author(s): Yifat Chaya Tarnovsky, Shahar Taiber, Yomiran Nissan, Arjan Boonman, Yaniv Assaf, Gerald S Wilkinson, Karen B Avraham and Yossi Yovel
Published in: Life science alliance, 2023, ISSN 2575-1077
Publisher: Life science alliance
DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202201847

Time-mapping and future-oriented behavior in free-ranging wild fruit bats

Author(s): Lee Harten, Xing Chen, Lior de Marcas, Adi Rachum, Michal Handel, Aya Goldshtein, Maya Fenigstein Levi, Shira Rosencwaig, Yossi Yovel
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 34, 2024, Page(s) 3005-3010.e4, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.05.046

Urban fruit bats give birth earlier in the season compared to rural fruit bats

Author(s): Maya Weinberg, Dean Zigdon, Mor Taub, Lee Harten, Ofri Eitan, Adi Rachum, Reut Assa, Omri Gal, Yossi Yovel
Published in: BMC Biology, Issue 23, 2025, ISSN 1741-7007
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-025-02124-y

Complex competition interactions between Egyptian fruit bats and black rats in the real world

Author(s): Xing Chen, Lee Harten, Adi Rachum, Liraz Attia, Yossi Yovel
Published in: BMC Biology, Issue 23, 2025, ISSN 1741-7007
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-025-02380-y

In sickness and in health: the dynamics of the fruit bat gut microbiota under a bacterial antigen challenge and its association with the immune response

Author(s): Tali S. Berman1, Maya Weinberg , Kelsey R. Moreno , Ga´bor A´ . Czirja´k and Yossi Yovel
Published in: Frontiers in Immunology, 2023, ISSN 1664-3224
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1152107

Early experience affects foraging behavior of wild fruit bats more than their original behavioral predispositions

Author(s): Adi Rachum, Lee M Harten, Reut Assa, Aya Goldshtein, Xing Chen, Nesim Gonceer, Yossi Yovel
Published in: eLife, Issue 14, 2025, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.103220

An artificial neural network explains how bats might use vision for navigation

Author(s): Aya Goldshtein, Shimon Akrish, Raja Giryes & Yossi Yovel
Published in: Communications Biology, 2022, ISSN 2399-3642
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-04260-5

Air pollution likely reduces hemoglobin levels in urban fruit bats

Author(s): Omri Gal, Ofri Eitan, Adi Rachum, Maya Weinberg, Dean Zigdon, Reut Assa, Colin Price, Yossi Yovel
Published in: iScience, Issue 28, 2026, Page(s) 111997, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.111997

Bat vocal sequences enhance contextualinformation independently of syllable order

Author(s): Yoni Amit, Yossi Yovel
Published in: iScience, 2023, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: iScience
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106466