{"id":9069,"date":"2023-11-22T08:43:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T07:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibs.bialowieza.pl\/en\/?p=9069"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:59:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:59:04","slug":"new-publication-on-an-unusual-mating-behaviour-in-bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibs.bialowieza.pl\/en\/new-publication-on-an-unusual-mating-behaviour-in-bats\/","title":{"rendered":"22.11.2023 &#8211; New publication on an unusual mating behaviour in bats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Institute are co-authors of a just-published paper revealing a new copulatory behaviour in mammals. The study showed that in serotine bats (Eptesicus serotinus) the penis is used as a &#8216;copulatory arm&#8217; rather than an intromittent organ. The publication is already making its rounds in some major news and popular science sites, such as:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Science<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/how-big-too-big-bat-s-enormous-penis-makes-penetration-impossible\">https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/how-big-too-big-bat-s-enormous-penis-makes-penetration-impossible<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nature<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-03565-7\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-03565-7<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><strong>The New York Times<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/20\/science\/bats-sex-cloacal-kiss.html?unlocked_article_code=1._0w.S22Z.I39IJYIBrM5D&amp;smid=url-share\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/20\/science\/bats-sex-cloacal-kiss.html?unlocked_article_code=1._0w.S22Z.I39IJYIBrM5D&amp;smid=url-share<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Newsweek<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/bat-uses-penis-extra-arm-during-sex-disproportionately-long-1845249\">https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/bat-uses-penis-extra-arm-during-sex-disproportionately-long-1845249<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Popular Science<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/environment\/serotine-bats-mating\/\">https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/environment\/serotine-bats-mating\/<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><strong>The New Scientist<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2403830-bat-uses-its-huge-penis-like-an-arm-during-sex\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2403830-bat-uses-its-huge-penis-like-an-arm-during-sex\/<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><strong>CNN<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/11\/21\/europe\/serotine-bats-mammals-sex-mating-scn\/index.html\">https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/11\/21\/europe\/serotine-bats-mammals-sex-mating-scn\/index.html<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><strong>EurekAlert!<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1008279\">https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1008279<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gizmodo<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/bats-have-weird-sex-mating-1851036719\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/bats-have-weird-sex-mating-1851036719<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Full version of the paper: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/fulltext\/S0960-9822(23)01304-0\">https:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/fulltext\/S0960-9822(23)01304-0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photograph by Alona Shulenko<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9070\" src=\"https:\/\/ibs.bialowieza.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/PIC4_Alona-Shulenko-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ibs.bialowieza.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/PIC4_Alona-Shulenko-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/ibs.bialowieza.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/PIC4_Alona-Shulenko-1280x854.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/ibs.bialowieza.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/PIC4_Alona-Shulenko-980x653.jpg 980w, https:\/\/ibs.bialowieza.pl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/PIC4_Alona-Shulenko-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 2560px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Institute are co-authors of a just-published paper revealing a new copulatory behaviour in mammals. The study showed that in serotine bats (Eptesicus serotinus) the penis is used as a &#8216;copulatory arm&#8217; rather than an intromittent organ. The publication is already making its rounds in some major news and popular science sites, such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mri-in-media","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibs.bialowieza.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibs.bialowieza.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibs.bialowieza.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibs.bialowieza.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibs.bialowieza.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9069"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ibs.bialowieza.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9077,"href":"https:\/\/ibs.bialowieza.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9069\/revisions\/9077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibs.bialowieza.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibs.bialowieza.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibs.bialowieza.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibs.bialowieza.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}