And still more eat insects — a common brown bat can consume a thousand mosquitos an hour! You definitely want those around ...

Each spring, pregnant Mexican long-nosed bats fly north from Mexico to parts of southern Texas and New Mexico, feasting on ...

One in five mammal species is a bat. Some bats eat fruit, some pollinate flowers, others catch fish out of the water, and of course there’s the notorious vampire bat, which feeds on blood. But most ...

Fruit and sometimes insects also supplement their diet ... and are usually specialized by having huge hind feet and claws. The best known of the fish-eating bats is the fishing bulldog bat, Noctilio ...

In other countries, there are some bats that like to eat fruit, seeds, and pollen from flowers. Do bats in the UK live alone or in groups? Bats like to stay together in big groups, especially ...

Fruit-eating bats play an important role in maintaining forest health by being seed dispersers. For decades, researchers have explored ways to harness this capacity as a reforestation tool.

A study from Tel Aviv University, the first of its kind on mammals, has found that bats living in urban environments give ...