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A sweet, fun, and informative picture book about bat echolocation for kids 3-7. Written by a scientist who works with bats in his everyday life! It's time for Fiona the fruit bat to take her very ...
In the early 1990s, Janell Cannon, a graphic artist living near San Diego, spent her down time creating a sequence of paintings of a fruit bat being raised by a family of birds after dropping into ...
Yvonne Blomer has made the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize longlist for Pteropus: Fruit Bats. "I am working on a book-length manuscript titled Death of Persephone: A Murder Mystery and wanted to include ...
Bats are surprisingly good swimmers, but this little guy needed a hand to make it out of this Queensland pool.
Fruit bats may be acting as reservoirs of the killer Ebola virus, responsible for several deadly outbreaks in central Africa, research suggests. Three bat species captured during outbreaks between ...
Fruit bats hanging on tree branches in daylight in Bangladesh on November 6, 2023. Md Rafayat Haque Khan/Eyepix Group/Future Publishing via Getty Images.
Some bats like candy. Well, not the kind of candy you buy in a sweets shop. Rather, they like fruit, which is rich in sugar. “We call it nature’s candy,” says Wei Gordon, a biologist at ...
Birth of world's rarest fruit bat caught on Jersey Zoo camera 00:19. A zoo in the U.K. has captured a rare spectacle on camera – the birth of the rarest fruit bat in the world.