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 ...

From its white, fluffy fur to its cozy sleepover parties, the Honduran white bat is so unbelievably cute it’s hard to believe ...

Bats might not be as fashionable as their feathered counterparts, but bats are critically endangered and protected by law, as ...

Fruit and sometimes insects also supplement their diet ... from the trunk of a plant unobstructed by heavy tropical foliage. A few species of bats are carnivorous, eating small frogs, lizards, and ...

While previous studies have extensively documented the beneficial relationship between birds and plants, scientists "have completely overlooked the important ecological role of insect-eating bats ...

including the large flying foxes (fruit-eating bats) and some smaller bats that eat insects. But the proportion of bats infected by the virus is normally very low—less than 0.5%. Infected bats ...

“We think they eat ... bats have a lance-shaped nose leaf—an appendage that bats use for echolocation—on top of their snouts. Like wolves, lions, most bird species, and some cetaceans, insec ...

Bats eat bugs, which is not only helpful for keeping mosquitoes and another annoying insects at bay for us humans but also has economic importance. A recent scientific paper on the economic value of ...