STARKVILLE, Miss.—From some 8,000 miles away, Mississippi State scientist Manuel Ruiz-Aravena in the university’s Forest and Wildlife Research Center is studying flying foxes, or fruit bats, in ...

A group of 18 giant bats took the plane from Tampa to the Alamo City, where the San Antonio Zoo is welcoming the endangered species for the first time since the 1980s. The Malayan flying foxes, as ...

Motivating the public to conserve flying foxes is tricky, as they have a reputation for being noisy and social at night (not ...

Noel D. Preece is lead scientist for the national recovery team for the endangered spectacled flying fox, and a non-executive director of Terrain NRM Ltd. He is also a director of a specialist ...

A Queensland council has been forced to consider a housing buyback scheme for residents living amid a colony of bats that ...

Gympie Regional Council has endorsed a new flying fox management plan, as residents deal with a growing population. The council is calling on the state and federal governments to fund a buyback scheme ...

SAN ANTONIO — The zoo is welcoming a colony of flying foxes back after being gone since the 1980s. The seven boys, Rufio, Bruce, Guapo, Homer, Count, Mickey, and Yoda, and 11 girls all have unique ...

Ten years of data from Australia’s comprehensive national flying-fox monitoring program reveals the grey-headed flying fox (fruit bat) population is stable. It’s good news for this threatened species.

At 4:30 on a chilly morning in Australia, headlights burned through a dark forest in central Woodford, a small rural town 50 miles north of Brisbane, Queensland. Hundreds of flying foxes—magnificent ...