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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What did he do, what did he touch, what did he eat? If Ebola virus was in his body, where did it come from? Under SuspicionStraw-colored fruit bats swarm in an Ivory Coast village. Fruit bats ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...