We found bats in colder regions predictably gain more weight before winter. But in warmer regions with highly seasonal rainfall, such as tropical savannas or monsoonal forests, bats also fatten up. In ...

Many people would not describe bats as cute. This is likely because of bats’ associations with viruses, darkness, and evil. Granted, bats are somewhat weird animals, being the only mammals that can ...

German scientists are engaging bats to kick-start natural reforestation in the tropics by installing artificial bat roosts in deforested areas. This novel method for tropical restoration is ...

Portrait of a Seba’s short-tailed bat, Carollia perspicillata. Mariana Muñoz-Romo Tropical bats eat everything from fruit to frogs… and even each other, but when researchers at the ...

Three Smithsonian scientists will visit the New Orleans Public Library via Zoom to discuss “Bat Island: A Rare Journey into the Hidden World of Tropical Bats.” For decades, scientists at the ...

For decades, Corey Tarwater and her research team have used mist nets by day to capture various species of tropical birds in Panama to study the effects of global change on bird populations. Now, the ...

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 ...

In tropical forests bats are very important pollinators of plants and dispersers of the plant seeds. And yes, there is one species of tropical bat which feeds on the blood of warm-blooded animals ...

Researchers evaluated the synchronicity of viral shedding pulses in two maternity colonies of free-tailed bats (Mormopterus francoismoutoui) in the Reunion Island of the South-Western Indian Ocean.

In particular, bats in tropical regions like Southeast Asia and Western Africa have been extensively explored, but the bats in temperate regions, like New Zealand, have been less well studied.

People are destroying bat habitats, bringing us closer to viruses they carry. Reuters pinpoints areas worldwide where a bat-borne disease could infect humanity.