We investigated the social organization of Bonin flying foxes (Pteropus pselaphon) in a roost and the seasonal shift of roosting sites in relation to the reproductive cycle on Chichi-jima Island, ...

KOZHIKODE: Prof. Stephen Luby, the Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine) at Stanford University in the United States, has said Pteropus genus fruit bat hosts the Nipah ...

One of the world’s least-known flying foxes could face extinction by rising seas and changing precipitation patterns due to global warming, according to a new study in Zookeys. The research, headed by ...

This study aimed to describe the transmission dynamics, the serological and virus excretion patterns of Nipah virus (NiV) in Pteropus vampyrus bats. Bats in captivity were sampled every 7-21 days over ...

They say the bat, Pteropus vampyrus, could vanish from western Malaysia in as little as six years if the killing continues at its present rate. With a wingspan of 6ft, P. vampyrus is the biggest ...

The Little Mariana fruit bat was never photographed in the wild, unlike its closest living relative, the Mariana fruit bat (Credit: Getty Images) The Little Mariana fruit bat slipped into oblivion ...

Yvonne Blomer has made the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize longlist for Pteropus: Fruit Bats. "I am working on a book-length manuscript titled Death of Persephone: A Murder Mystery and wanted to include poems ...

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