STARKVILLE, Miss.—From some 8,000 miles away, Mississippi State scientist Manuel Ruiz-Aravena in the university’s Forest and Wildlife Research Center is studying flying foxes, or fruit bats, in ...
The large flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus) is a Southeast Asian species of megabat. In China, bats are said to bring good luck. Ancient Egyptians believed they could cure an array of diseases. But ...
A new initiative known as BatCam is giving people a glimpse into the normally secret world of Australia's largest native bat. The grey-headed flying fox is listed as a vulnerable species by New South ...
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Thousands of baby grey-headed flying foxes have been abandoned by their mothers in the latest example of wildlife devastation caused by Australia's severe drought and bushfires, ...