Nearby, a red-rumped agouti — a South American rodent that looks like a large, long-legged guinea pig — scuttled behind a tree trunk. A few feet away, an Arabian sand cat put its paw inside a log to ...

Giant fruit bats in Australia are known to carry two infections, which can pose a serious risk to human health like Lyssavirus and Hendra virus. Human infections with these viruses are very rare ...

Each night, thousands of fruit bats (AKA flying foxes) with 3ft wingspans fly to the neighbouring isle of Sumbawa for a nocturnal feast of fruit and nectar from night-opening flowers.

Flying foxes -- giant fruit bats that look like winged German shepherd puppies -- are in trouble. But scientists suggest a new way to help protect the bats on the Solomon Islands: working with ...

Parties of Americans and Europeans have visited the caves resorted to by these giant fruit bats in colony with the smaller insectivorous bats of the islands. They speak of the sight as indescribable.

Flying foxes-- giant fruit bats that look like winged German shepherd puppies-- are in trouble. But scientists suggest a new way to help protect the bats on the Solomon Islands: working with local ...

Tonga boasts a monarchy-style government and an ecology that features a huge fruit bat whose actual, legal bat name is the “giant flying fox.” The giant flying fox has a wingspan of up to 2 ...

Scientists are suing the Mauritius government to halt the culling of flying foxes. So far, 50,000 bats have been slaughtered.

Sub Pop first expressed interest in the Fruit Bats last spring, and Johnson was in talks with the label while recording Mouthfuls.

There is no indication how big the bat's wingspan is in the video but the largest giant fruit bats can attain a diameter of 5.6ft. The daring display occurs as Patton records two bats on camera ...

It was an incredible introduction to Indonesia ’s justifiably self-proclaimed “magnificent seven”; orangutans, Komodo dragons, whale sharks, manta rays, sea turtles, giant fruit bats and the ...