The Jersey Zoo, located on the island of Jersey in the English Channel, captured the moment of the Livingstone's fruit bat's birth, the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust announced this week.

See All Key Ideas Widespread deforestation is causing severe population decline in the little-known Livingstone’s fruit bat (Pteropus livingstonii), a new study has found. The rare bat is found ...

The birth of the world's rarest fruit bat has been captured on camera in Jersey. The critically endangered Livingstone fruit bat pup was born in April, weighing 50-70g (1.8-2.5 ounces).

The bat enclosure has been closed for a week and the Livingstone fruit bats moved to a non-public area to make it easier for zookeepers to care for them. Matt Goetz, interim zoological director of ...

A huge tropical bat which could soon be extinct in the wild appears to be doing well in captivity in a British zoo. A colony of Livingstone's fruit bats, whose wingspan can reach 5ft (1.5m), has ...

"With its native forest habitat in the Comoros islands coming under growing pressure from a rapidly expanding human population, the Livingstone's fruit bat faces a real risk of extinction ...

and as their alternative name of Madagascan fruit bat suggests, they get their sustenance mainly from fruit. (The scientific words for this are fructivorous or frugivorous.) The Livingstone’s fruit ...

While visiting Durrell recently, Cavill came across a baby Livingstone’s fruit bat, which is a species that’s endangered and on the verge of extinction. Cavill adopted the bat and named him ...

The garden is located near the zoo’s Bat Island Roost, which is home to an estimated 8% of the total global Livingstone’s fruit bat population. Ms Shaw added: "Loving bats as much as I do and ...