The North Florida Wildlife Center just received dozens of straw-colored fruit bats, also known as flying foxes, and WCTV’s Madison Glaser got to get up close and personal to learn all about them!

An environment rights group, Wild Africa’s West Africa, has warned against the consumption of bats, saying it poses ...

Wild Africa, an international conservation organisation, says one-third of Africa’s bat species are found in Nigeria, ...

Individual flight routes of straw-colored fruit bats during the dry season (grey: urban area of Accra, green: tree density). Use of images is limited to editorial coverage of scientific topics ...

The research was inspired in part by a 2015 study by Chandran that revealed that African straw-colored fruit bats were seemingly resistant to Ebola virus infection. The Ebola virus binded poorly ...

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 ...

A Leon County Sheriff’s Office Deputy is stepping away from her duties after her stepson was accused of killing two men and injuring several others Thursday in a shooting at Florida State ...

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 ...