Bats have inspired many pop culture references, most famously vampires. But did you know there is a species of bat that looks eerily similar to these legendary creatures? The giant golden-crowned ...

More than 20 wildlife workers and volunteers pulled together to save as many of the surviving pups as possible, completing ...

Flying foxes are a type of bat within the Chiroptera order of mammals. There are several different species and, unfortunately, two native Australian species have suffered sudden and dramatic losses ...

Thousands of flying foxes are reported to have died in the heat wave, where temperatures exceeded 100°F A record-breaking number of flying foxes died during Australia's weekend heat wave, according to ...

A bat pup is hand-fed mashed bananas by a zookeeper after losing its mother. January 2021 (Oregon Zoo){ } PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Zoo has welcomed three Rodrigues flying fox bat pups into its ...

In a matter of hours, a searing January heatwave turned a thriving flying fox camp into a scene of mass death, with more than four in five animals in one colony succumbing as temperatures climbed ...

Darwin has become the heart of a massive flying fox recovery effort after tropical cyclone Narelle has left a “catastrophic” ...

The gray-headed flying fox is one of the world’s largest bats. It can weigh more than 2 pounds and have a wingspan of more than 5 feet. And as it migrates along Australia’s eastern coastal regions, ...

Townsville City Council will investigate the feasibility of active dispersals of flying-fox colonies as part of the newly revised Flying-Fox Management Plan, in welcome news to long-suffering ...

Reaching a 6-foot wingspan is the definitive physical requirement for the giant golden-crowned flying fox. Bats have inspired many pop culture references, most famously vampires. But did you know ...