Families are invited to celebrate Bat Appreciation Day at the Old New-Gate Prison and Copper Mine on Sunday, Sept. 15. Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection‘s Wildlife Division ...

Well, not the kind of candy you buy in a sweets shop. Rather, they like fruit, which is rich in sugar. “We call it nature’s candy,” says Wei Gordon, a biologist at Menlo College. She was catching ...

If your interview subject tells you she goes home and eats half her body weight every night, it might be cause for concern. Unless you're interviewing a particularly chatty cave myotis bat named Mindy ...

It is late at night, and we are silently watching a bat in a roost through a night-vision camera. From a nearby speaker comes a long, rattling trill. Cane toad’s rattling trill call. The bat briefly ...

Russ Benedict from Central College holds a big brown bat during a bat population survey at Big Hollow Recreation Area in Sperry, Iowa, on July 12, 2023. The northern long-eared bat is a threatened ...

Wyoming Seminary Lower School’s pre-kindergarten class learned more about bats from Susan Gallagher, director of the Carbon County Environmental Education Center in Jim Thorpe. A big brown bat, a ...

ELKHART COUNTY, Ind. (WNDU) - The only flying mammal in Indiana is in trouble right now. We’re talking about bats… and the most common bat in Indiana, called the little brown bat, has been on the ...

On a dark night in northern Belize in early May, Gliselle Marin stands in the middle of a patchy forest in the Lamanai Archaeological Reserve, about a two-hour drive from where she grew up. Every few ...

During Panama’s wet season, forests boom with a chorus of túngara frog mating calls as males compete for females’ attention.But these calls put the frogs in a precarious position between sex and death ...

Gliselle Marin joins the "Bat-a-thon," a group of 80-some bat researchers who converge on Belize each year to study these winged mammals. This scientist has a bat tat and earrings. She says there's a ...