Bat researchers recently declared a “major victory” in helping stop the online ornamental trade of bats, especially the ...

Known for their striking orange and black wings, painted woolly bats (Kerivoula picta), are collected and killed in their native habitat in South and Southeast Asia and sold as décor globally. The ...

A painted woolly bat, or Kerivoula picta, roosts under a leaf in Indonesia. Unlike its cave-dwelling cousins, this species does not live in groups, but as individuals or pairs in fields and ...

In March 2016, my team and I set off for northern Thailand with the task of filming a sequence about the rarely seen painted bat, (Kerivoula picta) for ‘Thailand: Earth’s Tropical Paradise.’ ...