Leucism is the absence of pigmentation in an animal's skin or fur – but, unlike albinism, does not affect the color of the ...

While there, he saw a “small group” of bats “falling ... Neotropical Biology and Conservation. One of the bats looked “completely white,” an unusual color for the animal, so Faux ...

Honduran white bats are among the tiniest fruit-eating bats ... The carotenoid comes from the peels of small figs that the bats eat. The figs are produced by a particular tree, Ficus columbrinae ...

We’re tracking a female eastern small-footed bat, one of the Myotis (“mouse-eared”) species hit hardest by white-nose syndrome, or WNS, the devastating fungal disease that’s killed an estimated 6 ...

The story begins in the mid-2000s when researchers in New York noticed a white ... the smallest bats in the country, weighing about the same as a gold wedding ring. These tiny bats consume ...

Some species in parts of the Northeast, like the once-common little brown bat, are almost gone. Scientists predict the federally listed Indiana bat will decline to less than 14 percent of its ...