Bats are essential to our ecosystem. The main challenge in bat conservation is lack of awareness among the people about bats.

Flying fox specialist Dr Sheema Abdul Aziz (pix, below) said her team's research showed that the giant fruit bats, known as "keluang" in Malay, are major pollinators of durian trees. Unfortunately ...

Mollie Byrne recalls spending summers with her family at a camp on the Juniata River in Bedford County, in south central ...

The largest bat in the world is the Flying Fox – join us we get to know this fruit-eating creature. Large gray headed flying fox Pteropus. Bat with spread wings hanging upside down from branch Have ...

curid=63914601. via Wikimedia Commons The Vanuatu Flying Fox (Pteropus anetianus) is a species of fruit bat endemic to the Vanuatu archipelago in the South Pacific. With a wingspan of up to 1.2 meters ...

After meeting a flying fox fruit bat and a duck, Zoboo wants to fly, too, so the Kratt Brothers build him a pair of wings. Zoboo flies to India with Martin and Chris right behind. On the way, they ...

Why should we read children's nonfiction animal books? Teaching kids about animals is akin to teaching colors and numbers.

Get to know the bat-eared fox, an insect-eating creature found in the grasslands and savannas of Africa (and also the ...

With no confirmed sightings of it in over 50 years, the little Mariana fruit bat has been declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It’s one of 21 species, including birds and ...

Bats have returned to Melbourne’s Royal Botanic ... Loading The grey-headed flying fox is a nationally listed vulnerable species, which is sensitive to heat increases and under threat from ...

The Egyptian fruit bat is the natural host of the highly pathogenic Marburg virus, which causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans, leading to death in 30-90 % of infected individuals.