SUKKUR: Thousands of megabats, also known as fruit bats, have occupied all the big trees on an island situated in the middle of River Indus near Sukkur Barrage. Earlier, such bats were seen in the ...

The katcha areas of Piryalo are reluctantly playing hosts to a large number of megabats, who have arrived seemingly from nowhere and have occupied most of the trees that bear fruits. These megabats ...

Everyone knows what a bat is. Those little flying fuzzballs with bizarre faces that hang upside down by their feet. But it seems many people aren’t aware that bats can range in size from the minute to ...

This Sunday, as I scanned through the morning papers, I was struck by this large pictorial feature on the Karachi section of Express Tribune. The headline screamed, “Megabats take over fruit trees in ...

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Officials at the oldest zoo in the world have been thrilled with the recent birth of three endangered megabats in the rainforest enclosure. Footage from Schoenbrunn Zoo, in Vienna, Austria, shows the ...

Scientists predict migration of the megabats, mostly found in eastern and northern Australia, could have significant effects on Tasmania’s ecosystems Fruit bats may migrate as far south as Tasmania in ...

You report on a study on the two major groups of bats that claims the only significant difference between Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera is a single ear bone (5 February, p 25). However, the ...