Bats are known to chew and spit out leaves, like humans chew and spit out tobacco or coca, but this is the first continuous ...

Though most species inhabit the tropical and semitropical areas of the world, they are still common in the United States and are most numerous in the Southwest. Some bats prefer to roost in barns, ...

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, less labor ...

Consider the case of the nectar-drinking bat and the night-flowering vine whose lives intertwine in the lowland tropical forests of Central America. At La Selva Biological Station in northern ...

Ana Endara, STRI Biologists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s Bat Lab in Panama noticed that when captive bats were given mealworms, a food that they hadn’t tried before ...

"This critical habitat designation for one of North America’s rarest bats, provides an umbrella of protection for all species living thereunder.” Today’s critical habitat designation is the result of ...

Bats provide other services to humans too, such as pollinating plants and distributing seeds, in tropical and subtropical habitats throughout the world. Some of these plants are useful to people, ...

In March 2016, my team and I set off for northern Thailand with the task of filming a sequence about the rarely seen painted bat, (Kerivoula picta) for ‘Thailand: Earth’s Tropical Paradise.’ ...