Researchers recently investigated hammer-headed bat populations in southern Cameroon. The mixed-methods investigation was ...

They are native to Madagascar, and as their alternative name of Madagascan fruit bat suggests, they get their sustenance mainly from fruit. (The scientific words for this are fructivorous or ...

Livingstone's fruit bats are critically endangered, with fewer than an estimated 1,300 members of the species left in the wild, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

According to the Oregon Zoo, the species is native only to Rodrigues - a tiny island in the Indian Ocean about 900 miles east of Madagascar - and plays an important ecological role on the island ...

A rare bat pup is being hand-reared at Northumberland Zoo after being dropped by his mother shortly after birth.