Forest officials in Tamil Nadu’s Salem district caught two men allegedly hunting fruit bats, cooking them, and selling the ...

Livingstone's fruit bats are critically endangered, with fewer than an estimated 1,300 members of the species left in the wild, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

A photograph of a Jamaican Fruit Bat in flight. Fruit bats generate more diverse antibodies than mice, but overall have a weaker antibody response, according to a new study published September 24 ...

A critically endangered fruit bat was born last month at the Bronx Zoo. The female Rodriguez fruit bat was born July 6 and has been named “Buffy” by staff Veterinarians at the Wildlife ...

Yosef Prat, Mor Taub, Yossi Yovel. Everyday bat vocalizations contain information about emitter, addressee, context, and behavior. Scientific Reports, 2016; 6: 39419 DOI: 10.1038/srep39419 ...

A once critically endangered bat species, the 'Pemba flying fox', has made a dramatic return from the brink of extinction, according to new research. As recently as 1989, only a scant few ...

Regulatory T Cell-like Response to SARS-CoV-2 in Jamaican Fruit Bats Transduced with Human ACE2, Bradly Burke, Savannah Rocha, Shijun Zhan, Miles Eckley, Clara Reasoner, Amin Addetia, Juliette ...

More information: Stephanie S. Pavlovich et al, The Egyptian Rousette Genome Reveals Unexpected Features of Bat Antiviral Immunity, Cell (2018).

In 2020, you could have a fruit bat on it instead. As part of the U.S. Mint’s America the Beautiful Quarters program, six special designs, including the fruit bat, will be found on the reverse ...