The world's largest bat species play vital roles in their ecosystems, from seed dispersal to prey control. These megabats, ...

Everybody who visits Kasanka National Park in Zambia during "bat season" agrees that the evening emergence of African straw-colored fruit bats from their roost site is one of the wildlife wonders ...

The NFWC received the colony of nearly 30 bats from the Jacksonville Zoo recently and the center is excited to allow visitors to start learning about the threatened species.

Some bats like candy. Well, not the kind of candy you buy in a sweets shop. Rather, they like fruit, which is rich in sugar. “We call it nature’s candy,” says Wei Gordon, a biologist at ...

Until now, most research has used either generalized cell samples or organoids made from just one type of tropical fruit bat, and only from a single organ. But a breakthrough has arrived: a ...

This makes it one of the biggest bat colonies in the world, and the most important in Africa. The next question is why we wanted to count them. Why counting is important ...