These cute little fluffballs are frugivores, which means they only eat fruit. They particularly love figs like Ficus ...

Mike Dilger has been an obsessive naturalist since childhood, equally at home either on his hands and knees identifying wild flowers in the British countryside, or surveying the Amazon for ...

What’s going on in their tiny pancreases? Envy the fruit bat. They can eat twice their body weight in sugary fruit without spiking blood sugar endangering their health. In fact, you’ll see a unicorn ...

But wildlife carers have said they are now seeing a heightened number of underweight bats being entangled and killed in plastic fruit tree netting. The netting is used by residents to keep animals off ...

“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 they love bananas and other fruits. They’re pretty big, ...

Bats contribute to pollination and seed dispersal of over 500 plant species worldwide, many of which have economic and ecological value. That includes the durian fruit of Southeast Asia and the ...

Bats play an essential role in the environment. Insect-eating bats help control pests that threaten crops, while fruit bats are critical pollinators and seed dispersers for many wild and ...

A former Catholic priest in Jersey has been found guilty of three counts of gross indecency with a child. Piotr Antoni Glas's offences occurred between 2004 and 2007 while he was a priest in the ...

A new study from Tel Aviv University reveals that the greater mouse-tailed bat (Rhinopoma microphyllum) uses its long tail as a natural tactile sensor to navigate backward in dark caves.

The project involved luring fruit bats into depleted areas by using synthetic smells to mimic their main food sources. Lays Parolin, an ecologist at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, told ...

Image via Wikimedia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 Fruit bats are mammals that can fly and are the only bats that eat fruit. The majority of fruit ...

At the Northumberland Zoo, in the UK, an ultra rare and extremely cute bat gave birth to a precious ... critically endangered Livingstone’s fruit bat. Yair Ben-Dor has more.