Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology, and food. She is the author of "The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction." Bill Bouton may be ...

As a Pallas’s long-tongued bat flies around a rainforest looking for nectar, it relies on echolocation from the sound it emits to find flowers. From a plant’s perspective, it’s good to be found by ...

Hummingbird feeders don't only attract the adorable creatures for which they're named. They also signal an all-you-can-eat buffet for an unexpected dinner guest — bats. The Arizona Game and Fish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 8—An endangered bat species has traveled farther north in New Mexico than previously known, scientists confirmed by testing ...

This story appears in the March 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Nature’s inventiveness knows no bounds. Consider the case of the nectar-drinking bat and the night-flowering vine whose ...

I had never touched a living animal that was as cold as the hibernating bat I found while working on my master's thesis. It made we want to stick her in a nice, warm jacket pocket. But that is the ...