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

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 ...

Anyone with a pool knows how easily animals can become stuck swimming in circles. It’s not uncommon to find insects, mice, and even frogs floating around the deep end. Bats are less commonly found in ...

A high-sugar diet is bad news for humans, leading to diabetes, obesity and even cancer. Yet fruit bats survive and even thrive by eating up to twice their body weight in sugary fruit every day. A high ...

But scientists say there are practical and ethical challenges to overcome before the strategy could be deployed in real-world settings.

Straw-coloured fruit bats love fruits above everything, for example date palms and mangos – or, as in this case, sugar plums c). However, they do not eat the whole fruit, but press out the juice and ...

SCHOOL groups and tourists are visiting a cave with bats that carry Marburg virus, previously flagged as having pandemic ...