What’s going on in their tiny pancreases? Envy the fruit bat. They can eat twice their body weight in sugary fruit without spiking blood sugar endangering their health. In fact, you’ll see a unicorn ...

But wildlife carers have said they are now seeing a heightened number of underweight bats being entangled and killed in plastic fruit tree netting. The netting is used by residents to keep animals off ...

“I've never seen a bat swim,” added a second person. “Can we please call it the bat stroke?” added another person on social media. “It’s a fruit bat. A flying fox. They have really cute faces, and ...

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 ...

A new study from Tel Aviv University reveals that the greater mouse-tailed bat (Rhinopoma microphyllum) uses its long tail as a natural tactile sensor to navigate backward in dark caves.

The project involved luring fruit bats into depleted areas by using synthetic smells to mimic their main food sources. Lays Parolin, an ecologist at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, told ...

Image via Wikimedia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 Fruit bats are mammals that can fly and are the only bats that eat fruit. The majority of fruit ...

DFW staff and volunteers recorded 38 fruit bats, locally known as fanihi, on Saipan, and five on Tinian. Fandel said that in 2024, volunteers and staff counted 56 sightings across 16 stations. On ...

Instead of sucking blood like a vampire, vampire bats make a small cut with their teeth, then lap up the flowing blood with their tongues. ©Desmodus / Creative Commons – Original In contrast to ...

This positive view of bats also has scientific backing. For example, many plants depend on fruit bats to pollinate them, or spread their seeds in their poo, including crops we eat such as lychees ...

Lab safety rules dictate that one must tie back long hair. Rosemarie Hansen learned the hard way when an open flame turned her locks into a lesson. - Partnership with specialist life science ...

As a consequence of their achievement of powered flight, bats (order Chiroptera) underwent one of the greatest adaptive radiations in the history of mammalian evolution and now constitute one of every ...