Local bat populations are getting attention in the Phoenix area due to a recent mosquito surge ahead of Halloween. The Mexican free-tailed bats living in the Phoenix Bat Cave primarily eat larger prey ...

Researchers filmed 10 species eating or scavenging bats at known Marburg-virus hotspot—and caught hundreds of humans visiting ...

This Artibeus fruit bat feasts on sugary fruit every night but these winged mammals don’t suffer from diabetes or other metabolic problems as humans might if we were to gorge on sugar. Some bats like ...

Bats are known to chew and spit out leaves, like humans chew and spit out tobacco or coca, but this is the first continuous recording of a bat eating entire leaves Elisabeth King Portrait of a Seba’s ...

Spectral bats are large, carnivorous creatures that feast on rodents, birds and even other bats. However, despite their fearsome reputation, these flying mammals (Vampyrum spectrum) also appear to ...

In the early 2000s, José Juan Flores Martínez was studying for a bachelor’s degree in biology and working as a volunteer in a program designed to control invasive rodents on islands in the Gulf of ...

By Shreya Dasgupta India is home to 135 known bat species, but their natural history and ecology remain poorly understood, ...