By far the most startling of these tales refer to the bats of the islands. The variety current in the Philippines is not the "Bat, bat, fly under my hat" familiar to the American small boy.

This is the incredible moment a colony of bats numbering in the thousands took flight after a 5.7 magnitude earthquake shook Sarangani in the Philippines ... symptom 5 big things that disappear ...

Krizler Tanalgo at the University of Southern Mindanao in Kabacan, the Philippines, and his colleagues found that 19% of the bat species they surveyed are hunted. Bats that live on nectar and ...