This news release is available in German. African straw-coloured fruit bats fulfil important ecosystem functions by dispersing seeds and pollen during their flights. Researchers from the Max Planck ...

A photograph of a Jamaican Fruit Bat in flight. Fruit bats generate more diverse antibodies than mice, but overall have a weaker antibody response, according to a new study published September 24 th ...

More than four dozen Jamaican fruit bats destined for a lab in Bozeman, Montana, are set to become part of an experiment with an ambitious goal: predicting the next global pandemic. Bats worldwide are ...

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. A high ...

Wei Gordon receives funding from NSF. Nadav Ahituv is a cofounder and on the scientific advisory board of Regel Therapeutics and also received funding from BioMarin Pharmaceutical Incorporate. Funding ...

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 ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* server, researchers examined the vulnerability of Jamaican fruit bats (Artibeus jamaicensis) to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

A zoo in the U.K. has captured a rare spectacle on camera – the birth of the rarest fruit bat in the world. The Jersey Zoo, located on the island of Jersey in the English Channel, captured the moment ...

New research in social bats raises the intriguing possibility that evolution can program the brain’s “place cells,” which are typically associated with location, to encode all kinds of environmental ...

A recently published genetic study on fruit bats found in the Philippines revealed high genetic difference among island groups and compared to the Southeast Asian region, which could mean they either ...