These Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus), unlike most other species of bats, are diurnal and have great vision. But they aren’t just using their eyesight as they forage for ripe fruit, ...

Fruit-eating bats play an important role in maintaining forest health by being seed dispersers. For decades, researchers have explored ways to harness this capacity as a reforestation tool.

Similarly, another study focused on fruit-eating bats in the Atlantic Forest found that iron and aluminum mining led to oxidative stress and tissue damage, indicating that these mining activities ...

It uses its teeth to make a tent-like home out of leaves, where several bats sleep together. This bat loves to eat figs ... lives in trees and eats mainly fruit, and can sometimes be found ...