The insects can eat twice their body weight in sugary fruit without increasing their blood sugar. What’s going on in their ...

As twilight settles, the world’s most misunderstood mammals take to the skies. Bats, with their leathery wings and mysterious ...

Notably, the state is home to two species listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN): Salim Ali’s fruit bat and Andersen’s roundleaf bat. According to ...

However, fruit bats--particularly the straw-coloured fruit bat, Africa's most hunted bat--are widely consumed in Nigeria, raising both ecological and public health concerns due to their potential ...

An environment rights group, Wild Africa’s West Africa, has warned against the consumption of bats, saying it poses ecological and public health risks. Speaking against the backdrop of the ...

When they emerge at night in large numbers, bats avoid colliding with each other by adjusting both their flight patterns and ...

It could be the bat's size, odd looks ... They hang in the trees like bunches of fruit and, since the early part of the century, have been invading the nation's fruit crops, swooping in on ...

“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 ...

In this heartfelt wildlife documentary, a volunteer conservationist and an endangered critter develop a parent-child connection. By Jeannette Catsoulis The film “1-800-ON-HER-OWN” follows the ...

Shaikh Zain ud-Din’s Brahminy Starling with Two Antheraea Moths, Caterpillar, and Cocoon on an Indian Jujube Tree was originally part of an album commissioned by his British patrons ...