Anyone with a pool knows how easily animals can become stuck swimming in circles. It’s not uncommon to find insects, mice, ...

From the blood-drinking vampire bats lurking in the shadows to the gentle fruit bats pollinating the rainforest, bats are proof that nature’s imagination knows no bounds. The Ancient Origins of Bats ...

A TEENAGE girl has died from a brain-swelling bat virus which experts fear could be the ‘next pandemic’. The 18-year-old ...

And fruit bat kidneys had adapted to ensure that vital electrolytes would be retained from their watery meals. “Even small changes, to single letters of DNA, make this diet viable for fruit bats,” ...

Of the total bat species in the Philippines, 26 are from the Pteropodidae family known as fruit bats or flying foxes; 17 of these are endemic to the country. Eleven of the 12 threatened species ...

A man in his 50s from northern New South Wales died after contracting Australian bat lyssavirus, marking the state’s first ...

Fruit Bats Are Not 'Blind As A Bat' Date: June 16, 2007 Source: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Summary: The retinas of most mammals contain two types of photoreceptor cells, the cones for daylight vision ...

Some bats like candy. Well, not the kind of candy you buy in a sweets shop. Rather, they like fruit, which is rich in sugar. “We call it nature’s candy,” says Wei Gordon, a biologist at ...

A man in his 50s has been hospitalized in critical condition after contracting the Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) in New ...

Now, to balance things off, a new paper describes cunnilingus among another fruit bat species—the Indian flying fox. In the summers of 2010 and 2011, Jayabalan Maruthupandian and Ganapathy ...

Fruit bats are known to dip down into water for a drink and sometimes misjudge the depth, leading to accidental falls. This bat may have mistaken the pool for a freshwater source and gotten more ...