The finding could help us understand how animals and humans navigate social relationships, potentially leading to new ...

Recently, researchers studying the social behavior of Egyptian fruit bats discovered that social behavior is processed by the hippocampus, the brain’s hub for memory and navigation. Specialized ...

Longleat’s popular Bat Cave is reopening on February 15, welcoming back a colony of 42 Egyptian fruit bats to the Wiltshire estate. The return of the bats has sent the fruit bill soaring, with their ...

Cities can be deeply unwelcoming places for wildlife. They are noisy, difficult to get around, full of people and heavily ...

Cyprus is home to 18 insectivorous bat species and one fruit bat species. While most of these bats hibernate during the colder months, the Egyptian rousette fruit bat is the only one that remains ...

Authorities traced the infections to one of the mine’s tunnels, where a 10,000-strong colony of Egyptian fruit bats roosts. Rather than closing the mine, the Rwanda Biomedical Center set up ...

It has also brought the arrival of some winged friends as Longleat's Bat Cave welcomed 42 new residents who seem to have big appetites. The Egyptian fruit bats get through 98 apples, 84 bananas ...

Scientists have identified a novel influenza A virus (H18N12) in fishing bats in the Colombian Caribbean, revealing genetic ...