Help kick off the Perry Public Library's Summer Library Program during the annual KidsFest on Saturday, June 7.

“In Rwanda, one of the [bat] species of concern, although not threatened according to the IUCN Red List, is the Egyptian fruit bat [Rousettus aegyptiacus] because it has been identified by ...

The nocturnal exhibit at the Lake Superior Zoo is home to 12 Egyptian fruit bats and two African straw-colored fruit bats. Fruit bats eat fruit, as you probably can guess. This differs from ...

(See 16 pictures of bats, just in time for Halloween.) The colony wins out, according to a new study published October 31 in PLOS Biology. Young Egyptian fruit bats (pictured) grow up in a very ...

Do Egyptian fruit bats, a common species, possess complex cognitive abilities? Researchers from Tel Aviv University explored this question by observing the bats in the wild to answer a long-standing ...

Elbert is pursuing a PhD in veterinary pathology at UGA and made bats the focus of her research. Elbert said that Egyptian fruit bats are significant to pathology because they are noteworthy ...

Yossi Yovel of Tel Aviv University and his colleagues used GPS trackers to track Egyptian fruit bats that were kept free at the university's I. Meyer Seagulls Zoo to investigate how the bats ...

This is no balmy cave along the Mediterranean Sea. The group of Egyptian fruit bats is in Berkeley, California, navigating an artificial cave in a laboratory that researchers have set up to study the ...

Janey Winchell knows full well that a lot of people get the heebie-jeebies from bats. Egyptian fruit bats roosting in a dark corner of the bat cage at the Peabody Essex Museum’s “Bats!” ...

From Sept. 9 to July 28, 2024, they will be the focus of the “Bats!” exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. Visitors can see a small colony of live Egyptian fruit bats, view bat artwork ...

Lab tests confirmed he had Marburg: a deadly virus found in the Egyptian rousette, a common African fruit bat. Faatey’s infant son died of Marburg soon after. Their deaths came out of the blue ...

Blind as a bat? Hardly. All bats can see to some degree, and certain species possess prominent eyes and a keen sense of vision. Take the Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus). This species is ...