Oregon Zoo veterinarians and zookeepers have worked to save a rare baby fruit bat that almost didn't live past its first day after being rejected by its mother.

Oregon Zoo veterinarians and zookeepers have worked to save a rare baby fruit bat that almost didn't live past its first day after being rejected by its mother.

Many bats are pollinators, responsible for making sure our crops and plants survive and bear fruit. And still more eat insects — a common brown bat can consume a thousand mosquitos an hour!

Oregon Zoo veterinarians and zookeepers have worked to save a rare baby fruit bat that almost didn't live past its first day after being rejected by its mother.

Bats might give some people the heebie-jeebies, but this video of a baby flying fox (aka a fruit bat) chowing down on a slice of watermelon for the first time has us rethinking everything we ...

The baby fruit bat finds herself in a bird’s nest, where she learns to act just like the baby birds — eating bugs, sleeping at night, and absolutely no hanging upside-down by her feet!

Move over, early bloomers: baby bats might be the most precocious younglings of the animal kingdom. Researchers have found that, from day zero, newborn Egyptian fruit bats can use the built-in ...

A visit to the North East home of more than 100 species of animals, ranging from tiny harvest mice to striking snow leopards, ...

How Bat Moms Give Bat Pups Their Sense of Direction Scientists were surprised to discover that at least one bat species carries its young to an unsupervised drop-off point night after night.

My baby batfish, and Trevor, the baby fruit bat. A week later, while snorkeling in protected waters of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, I found another baby bat. A baby batfish that is ...

Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 27 March 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Y. Prat at Tel Aviv University ...