This news release is available in German. African straw-coloured fruit bats fulfil important ecosystem functions by dispersing seeds and pollen during their flights. Researchers from the Max Planck ...

Quick Take Fruit bats have earned their name, as they greatly enjoy munching on fruits of all types. In the featured Instagram video, two fruit bats are feasting on a gigantic watermelon. Flying foxes ...

A photograph of a Jamaican Fruit Bat in flight. Fruit bats generate more diverse antibodies than mice, but overall have a weaker antibody response, according to a new study published September 24 th ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* server, researchers examined the vulnerability of Jamaican fruit bats (Artibeus jamaicensis) to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

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, located on the island of Jersey in the English Channel, captured the moment ...

More than four dozen Jamaican fruit bats destined for a lab in Bozeman, Montana, are set to become part of an experiment with an ambitious goal: predicting the next global pandemic. Bats worldwide are ...

Blind as a bat? Hardly. All bats can see to some degree, and certain species possess prominent eyes and a keen sense of vision. Take the Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus). This species is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A woman was infected with IsrRAPXV while caring for injured Egyptian fruit bat sucklings. Four other people also ...

New research in social bats raises the intriguing possibility that evolution can program the brain’s “place cells,” which are typically associated with location, to encode all kinds of environmental ...