An environment rights group, Wild Africa’s West Africa, has warned against the consumption of bats, saying it poses ecological and public health risks. Speaking against the backdrop of the ...

They particularly love figs like Ficus colubrinae, and prefer roosting near fruit trees so they can forage through the night. Honduran white bats only live in lowland rainforests where heliconia ...

A team of mechanical and biological engineers at Cornell University and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Brown ...

[Tony Messina] had been fascinated with bat’s echolocation since he was a kid. After he retired, he decided to act on this fascination and built a simple bat detector. The simple bat detector ...

including two native species of fruit bats that are vital to pollination. The park’s rainforests are home to species originating from Southeast Asia. The National Park of American Samoa is ...

They particularly love figs like Ficus colubrinae, and prefer roosting near fruit trees so they can forage through the night. Honduran white bats are rare and incredibly difficult to find. ©Ondrej ...

April 14, 2025 • Envy the fruit bat. They can eat twice their body weight in sugary fruit without spiking blood sugar endangering their health. In fact, you’ll see a unicorn in the wild ...

Ecosystem Engineers: Bats as Pollinators and Seed Dispersers Obitte highlighted the ecological importance of fruit bats, which serve as mobile seed dispersers. “Fruit bats often fly hundreds of ...