"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 ...

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 ...

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.

More information: Tigga Kingston et al, Large Old World Fruit Bats on the Brink of Extinction: Causes and Consequences, Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (2023). DOI ...

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 ...

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 ...

early bats were suggested as omnivorous, feeding on a mixture of fruits and insects, and the ability to perceive sweetness has been retained throughout the evolutionary history of Old World fruit ...

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.

Fruit bats generate more diverse antibodies than mice, but overall have a weaker antibody response, according to a new study published September 24 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Dan ...

There is an old ... most bats live fewer than 20 years in the wild, scientists have documented six species that live more than 30 years, and in 2006, a tiny bat from Siberia set the world record ...