"These trees take decades to cultivate the right profile." Locals outraged after more than 1,000 valuable trees mysteriously ...

Our study shows the exact opposite: that these giant fruit bats are actually ... classified as 'endangered' on Malaysia's National Red List. Large fruit bats of the genus Pteropus are severely ...

But until now, scientists weren’t sure whether large fruit bats — known in Malaysia as “flying foxes” — were a help or a hindrance to durian trees’ production of fruit. “When I saw ...

In the late 1990s a deadly new disease emerged from the tropical forests of Malaysia, spread by fruit bats whose natural habitat had been destroyed by deforestation. The Malaysian government was ...

and the giant Philippine fruit bat (Pteropus vampyrus lanensis), both of which have wingspans that can exceed five feet. Bats exist on every continent besides Antarctica, and they’ve adapted ...