This Artibeus fruit bat feasts on sugary fruit every night but these winged mammals don’t suffer from diabetes or other metabolic problems as humans might if we were to gorge on sugar. Some bats like ...

Some fruit bats eat up to twice their body weight in sugary mangoes, bananas, or figs every day to not only survive, but thrive. Unlike humans, these flying mammals can have an essentially permanent ...

A high-sugar diet is bad news for humans, leading to diabetes, obesity and even cancer. Yet fruit bats survive and even thrive by eating up to twice their body weight in sugary fruit every day. Now, ...

Anyone with a pool knows how easily animals can become stuck swimming in circles. It’s not uncommon to find insects, mice, and even frogs floating around the deep end. Bats are less commonly found in ...

Kolkata: Zoo authorities at Alipore Zoological Gardens stepped up on monitoring the colony of resident fruit bats, Indian ...

An outbreak of the bat-borne Nipah virus occurred in the southern Indian state of Kerala in September 2023. As state authorities scramble to control this latest outbreak, fourth in five years, ...