Fruit-eating bats play an important role in maintaining forest health by being seed dispersers. For decades, researchers have explored ways to harness this capacity as a reforestation tool.

One in five mammal species is a bat. Some bats eat fruit, some pollinate flowers, others catch fish out of the water, and of course there’s the notorious vampire bat, which feeds on blood. But most ...

This bat loves to eat figs, and three species of figs have ... The masked palm civet lives in trees and eats mainly fruit, and can sometimes be found in urban areas close to forests.