Little red flying foxes are tree-dwelling bats. In daytime they can be seen roosting in giant camps that may include as many as a million individuals. The bats are indeed efficient fliers ...

Flying foxes, or fruit bats, are familiar to many Australians. So it may come as a surprise to learn two of the four mainland species, both gray-headed and spectacled flying foxes, are threatened ...

Next to Rockhampton Airport is a large botanical garden filled with thousands of flying foxes, and when the sun sets these ...

The commonly named "flying!' squirrels and "flying" lemurs actually glide ... Actually, a higher incidence of the disease is found in skunks and foxes than in bats. In the United States the rate of ...

Bats that experience food shortages due to climate change and habitat loss end up roosting in urban settings, where they shed more of the deadly Hendra virus. Freshwater fish suffer from low levels of ...

both of whom have spent decades studying flying foxes in Australia, the Times reports. Over the years, Eby has watched both the landscape and the bats change. Large swaths of the native eucalyptus ...

Bats can transmit rabies and other dangerous viruses. Among the bats, flying foxes travel particularly long distances, and should be monitored as animals that may spread infections across national ...

In one day it was 10,000 and of the youngsters of the Grey-headed Flying Fox it is believed that only 20% survived last year. In January 2018, hundreds of fruit bats fell from trees during a heat ...