Baobabs are sometimes called "upside-down trees," because their branches look like roots reaching skyward. Of the eight ...

Why it's awesome: These "megabats" are the largest in continental Africa. Hammer-headed bats are named after the males' oddly elongated, boxy heads, which contain a large resonating chamber that ...

Bats play a vital role in African ecosystems, from pollination and seed dispersal to pest control, significantly contributing to local ecology and livelihoods. The conventional thinking has been that ...

Julius Nziza still remembers the moment vividly. Just before dawn on a chilly January morning in 2019, he and his team gently extracted a tiny brown bat from a net purposely strung to catch the ...

Artificial intelligence and computer vision provide most accurate estimate yet. Once a year, a small forest in Zambia becomes the site of one of the world's greatest natural spectacles. In November, ...

ZURICH, Switzerland (WPVI) -- A team in Liberia has found the ebola virus in a bat for the first time. That's a major step in understanding how the deadly virus got to humans there. Doctors had long ...

Mariëtte Pretorius does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Straw-coloured fruit bats love fruits above everything, for example date palms and mangos – or, as in this case, sugar plums c). However, they do not eat the whole fruit, but press out the juice and ...

Once a year, a small forest in Zambia becomes the site of one of the world’s greatest natural spectacles. In November, straw-colored fruit bats migrate from across the African continent to a patch of ...