Nearby, a red-rumped agouti — a South American rodent that looks like a large, long-legged guinea pig — scuttled behind a tree trunk. A few feet away, an Arabian sand cat put its paw inside a log to ...

3 Endangered Rodrigues Fruit Bat Babies Born at Oregon Zoo: 'Each New Arrival Is Significant' Zookeepers have been hand-raising one of the new additions, whose mother died just weeks after giving ...

Many bats are pollinators, responsible for making sure our crops and plants survive and bear fruit. And still more eat insects — a common brown bat can consume a thousand mosquitos an hour!

Bats might give some people the heebie-jeebies, but this video of a baby flying fox (aka a fruit bat) chowing down on a slice of watermelon for the first time has us rethinking everything we ...

WATCH: Scientists recently studied whether Egyptian fruit bats learn to “speak” from their mothers or from their colonies.

Fruit bats generate more diverse antibodies than mice, but overall have a weaker antibody response, according to a new study.

December 28, 2017 Baby Bats Can Learn Different Dialects Fruit bats raised hearing different pitches of sounds vocalized in keeping with their aural environment as they matured.

Eric D. Johnson has announced a new Fruit Bats album, Baby Man, which will be out September 12 via Merge. He calls this one an exercise in “minimalist maximalism” and you can preorder the ...

Like people, baby Egyptian fruit bats mimic the noises and chatter their mothers and other adults make, according to a new study published in Science Advances this week. The chicks of parrots and ...

An Egyptian fruit bat mother leaving the cave with her young pup. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 27 March 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Y. Prat at ...