But while bats are known for carrying viruses that cause diseases like rabies and Ebola, they also play a vital role in ecosystems around the world. Rodrigo Medellín, a bat expert who has been ...

The vampire bat feeds mainly on the blood of cattle, horses, and wild mammals such as deer and peccaries. It seldom bites humans. When feeding it chooses to land near a hairless area of thin skin -- ...

Although extremely rare, a Central California teacher has died of rabies after a wild bat bit her in a middle school classroom. The 60-year-old Fresno woman, Leah Seneng, found what appeared to be ...

Bats may broadcast their personalities to others from a distance, new experiments suggest, which could play into social dynamics within a colony.

This imperiled species is not bred in captivity, so all the bats are taken from the wild. Scientists with the working group believe the trade is unsustainable due to the slow life history of painted ...

volume seven of the Predators of the Wild series. Most bats eat insects, which may not always come to mind when one thinks of predators and prey -- although the fact that a swarm of bats can eat ...

As this species is not bred in captivity, all the bats are taken from the wild. “Painted woolly bats should be flying free in their native forests, not nailed to a wall in the United States,” said ...

Although alphaherpesviruses are known to occur in humans, little is known about their distribution in bats. FBAHV1, a previously unknown double-stranded DNA virus, was found to infect wild bats with ...