Going up the mast turned into a full-blown wildlife rescue mission. 🦇 What was supposed to be a simple job of swapping out ...

From the blood-drinking vampire bats lurking in the shadows to the gentle fruit bats pollinating the rainforest, bats are proof that nature’s imagination knows no bounds. The Ancient Origins of Bats ...

Fruit bats hanging on tree branches in daylight in Bangladesh on November 6, 2023. ... flying, blood sucking without coagulation, or eating fruit and not getting diabetes,” Ahituv said.

Like many fruit bats, the Little Mariana species had a small, fox-like face and a brown, furry body, giving rise to its alternative name, the Mariana – or Guam – flying fox. In the 1960s, ...

UPROOTED: Across tropical Asia, deadly outbreaks of Nipah virus have been traced back to the fruit-loving flying fox bat, pictured here in Kerala, India, in February 2022.

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 ...

Fruit bats have a genetic system that controls blood sugar without fail. ... “For me, bats are like superheroes, each one with an amazing super power, whether it is echolocation, flying, blood sucking ...