"There are still a lot of things we need to test." Scientists are tricking wild bats into helping combat a growing crisis: ...

like the mandarins or cocos-palm fruit bats consume after loss of native habitat, causes the bats to shed more virus for a longer duration. The researchers also found that the bats ate more food ...

Most of the Old World fruit and flower eaters rely on vision and sense of smell to locate food rather than sonar. Unlike birds, bats are color blind and, therefore, not dependent on color for locating ...

Mariana Muñoz-Romo Tropical bats eat everything from fruit to frogs… and even each other, but when researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute put infrared video cameras inside ...

In Tel Aviv, Israel, you might be privy to a strange sight: bats darting from tree branch to tree branch in broad daylight. These Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus), unlike most other species ...