Record-Breaking Number of Flying Foxes Die in Mass Mortality Event Triggered by Heat Wave in Australia

The Australian government already declared flying foxes, a species of bat, as vulnerable due to habitat loss ...
Mississippi State University

From the Deep South to Down Under: MSU flying fox research, new technology combine to prevent viral transmission

STARKVILLE, Miss.—From some 8,000 miles away, Mississippi State scientist Manuel Ruiz-Aravena in the university’s Forest and Wildlife Research Center is studying flying foxes, or fruit bats, in ...
AZ Animals

The Human-Sized Bat That Inspired Vampire Legends

The giant golden-crowned flying fox has a wingspan that outdoes many humans' armspan! Read here to learn more about these ...
Sky

'Flying foxes', otherwise knows as fruit bats, plague Australian city

'Flying foxes', otherwise knows as fruit bats, plague Australian city Screeching all day and night and piles of excrement are just two of the anti-social side effects of having a huge colony of fruit ...
New Scientist

Elusive Australian bat sometimes snacks on other bats

A south-east Australian bat that was thought to mainly eat insects also sometimes consumes other bats, according to an analysis of its droppings. The greater broad-nosed bat (Scoteanax rueppellii) ...