Bats usually get cast as spooky night dwellers who dart through the dark or hang upside down in attics. But there’s a lot ...

We are better off with bats. These bat facts will make you rethink the unsung heroes of the night and learn why you should ...

This news release is available in German. African straw-coloured fruit bats fulfil important ecosystem functions by dispersing seeds and pollen during their flights. Researchers from the Max Planck ...

Like bumblebees, bats benefit agriculture. They pollinate more than 300 varieties of fruit, including mangoes and bananas, as ...

Jessica Elbert, a boarded veterinary anatomic pathologist, diplomat of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists and PhD Candidate at University of Georgia’s College of Veterinary Medicine, is ...

Some 40 kilometers east of the Tanzanian coast in East Africa lies Latham Island, a rocky, utterly isolated and uninhabited ...

Blind as a bat? Hardly. All bats can see to some degree, and certain species possess prominent eyes and a keen sense of vision. Take the Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus). This species is ...

More than four dozen Jamaican fruit bats destined for a lab in Bozeman, Montana, are set to become part of an experiment with an ambitious goal: predicting the next global pandemic. Bats worldwide are ...

The racket that Egyptian fruit bats make when jammed next to each other contains information about food, sleeping arrangements and mating attempts. Bats are noisy creatures, especially in their ...

Bats are creatures of the night and are accustomed to complete darkness. They harness their hypersensitive hearing to feed, to fend off prey and to mate. But that's not the entire story. A new Tel ...

A new study extracts critical information from bat vocalizations to offer a rare, informative look into the world of bat communication. Bats, like humans, are extremely social mammals. They enjoy an ...