Fruit bats earned their name for a pretty obvious reason: their affinity for fruit. Also known as flying foxes, these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A zoo in the U.K. has captured a rare spectacle on camera – the birth of the rarest fruit bat in the world. The Jersey Zoo, ...

Oregon Zoo veterinarians and zookeepers have worked to save a rare baby fruit bat that almost didn't live past its first day after being rejected by its mother. Sara, one of several Rodrigues flying ...

Bat researchers at Tel Aviv University conducted a cross-adoption experiment: pups of urban fruit bats were adopted by rural mothers and vice versa, in order to discover whether the relative boldness ...

When I tell people my favorite animals are bats, they are often surprised. And it’s true, bats aren’t as immediately winning as say, dolphins or Golden Retrievers. They can be considered pest in your ...

Move over, early bloomers: baby bats might be the most precocious younglings of the animal kingdom. Researchers have found that, from day zero, newborn Egyptian fruit bats can use the built-in sonar ...

This is an Egyptian fruit bat leaving the cave after nightfall in central Israel. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 27 March 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, ...

A zoo in the U.K. has captured a rare spectacle on camera – the birth of the rarest fruit bat in the world. The Jersey Zoo, located on the island of Jersey in the English Channel, captured the moment ...