A female vampire bat has adopted an orphaned baby bat and begun nursing it, after creating a close social bond with the baby’s mother before she died. Although female bats live in “maternity colonies” ...

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An Eastern red bat cradles her babies. Watch the skies as evening falls and the stars come out in Missouri. Baby bats are beginning to emerge from roosts for their first foraging flights this week.

Vampire bat pup receives regurgitated food from an unrelated female bat. Credit: Gerry Carter lab surveillance camera video. During a study with captive vampire bats at the Smithsonian Tropical ...

Bat season is here, so don’t be shocked if the winged mammals appear in attics or if little ones learning to fly crash into picnic tables, low bushes, driveways or meet with other misfortune. “This ...