"Being on an island can subject you to extreme, rare events," says Kingston. Of the 75 large old world fruit bats still around, the majority (71%) are considered threatened, she adds. Unless their ...

On Bat Appreciation Day, it’s time to cast aside old fears ... re sipping fruit in a rainforest or using echolocation to hunt in total darkness, bats remind us that the world is full of surprises.

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 ... when it was born to its 8-year-old mother, whose name is Nymeria.

Most of the Old World fruit and flower eaters rely on vision and sense of smell to locate food rather than sonar. Unlike birds, bats are color blind and, therefore, not dependent on color for locating ...

also known as Large Old World Fruit Bats (LOWFBs). This study, conducted in collaboration with F.B. Vincent Florens of the University of Mauritius and Christian E. Vincenot of the University of ...

After bats appear in the fossil record, they quickly spread around the world. The most ancient bat teeth and jaw bones found so far are roughly 55 million years old. Incomplete specimens from ...

REUTERS/Handout Last June, a 26-year-old farmer ... a common African fruit bat, the only species known to transmit Marburg virus. REUTERS/Amir Cohen Intruding into the world’s bat lands ...

Fruit bats eat fruit, as you probably can guess. This differs from Minnesota bats which are insectivores. Both kinds echolocate, making them one of the loudest animals at the zoo.

Surprisingly, however, the loudest sounds were at lower frequencies at which the bats show little to no hearing loss in old age. "When taken together, the very high levels of noise that fruit-bats ...