The insects can eat twice their body weight in sugary fruit without increasing their blood sugar. What’s going on in their ...

As twilight settles, the world’s most misunderstood mammals take to the skies. Bats, with their leathery wings and mysterious ...

Attracting seed-dispersing bats to degraded landscapes and aiding in tropical forest restoration efforts has long been an alluring prospect for conservationists: potentially a cheaper, less labor ...

Trouble is: things aren't what they seem. The growers have long argued that the bats eat all the fruit. But the birds do, too, yet few would think of using flamethrowers or strychnine to kill the ...

A lazy fruit bat eating in the bowl. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 07 Feb. 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by L. Harten at Tel Aviv ...

Fruit and sometimes insects also supplement their diet ... and are usually specialized by having huge hind feet and claws. The best known of the fish-eating bats is the fishing bulldog bat, Noctilio ...

In other countries, there are some bats that like to eat fruit, seeds, and pollen from flowers. Do bats in the UK live alone or in groups? Bats like to stay together in big groups, especially ...

This bat loves to eat figs, and three species of figs have ... The masked palm civet lives in trees and eats mainly fruit, and can sometimes be found in urban areas close to forests.

The North Florida Wildlife Center just received dozens of straw-colored fruit bats, also known as flying foxes, and WCTV’s Madison Glaser got to get up close and personal to learn all about them!

As the world marks International Bat Appreciation Day, conservation organisation Wild Africa is sounding the alarm on the urgent need to protect Nigeria's rich but threatened bat population, which ...

The virus is present in the saliva of some Australian bats, including the large flying foxes (fruit-eating bats) and some smaller bats that eat insects. But the proportion of bats infected by the ...