In Tel Aviv, Israel, you might be privy to a strange sight: bats darting from tree branch to tree branch in broad daylight. These Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus), unlike most other species ...

By Sean Mowbray Attracting seed-dispersing bats to degraded landscapes and aiding in tropical forest restoration efforts has long been an alluring prospect for conservationists: potentially a cheaper, ...

As Neil McKenzie from Halton Stairlifts says: "Many enthusiasts do not realise that their garden activities could disturb ...

A press release from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR): At the beginning of the major league baseball season, the DNR teamed up with the Minnesota Twins to launch “Break a Bat, ...

Are you amazed at the number of bats major league baseball players break these days? Well, the bat manufacturers aren’t the only ones smiling when it happens. At the beginning of the major ...

Medellín suspects that woolly bats in the wild hang out on tree trunks when hunting, listening for the scuttling footsteps of rodents or reptiles, or the sound of another bat’s wings.

Some bats prefer to roost in barns, attics, caves or abandoned mines, those shelters providing safety from predators, protection from fluctuations in weather, and seclusion for rearing the young.