These flying foxes are the ones Sydney and Melbourne residents are most familiar with, because they roost in their thousands in the botanic gardens and leafy suburbs. Flying foxes breed only once a ...

In Far North Queensland, one special winged mammal helps keep rainforests alive. The spectacled flying fox travels vast distances each night, pollinating flowers and spreading seeds far and wide. But ...

Flying foxes. Megabats. Fruit bats. Whatever name you choose, these fox-faced creatures are remarkable. Our four species help pollinate eucalyptus trees in eastern Australia, spread the seeds of ...

The gray-headed flying fox is one of the world’s largest bats. It can weigh more than 2 pounds and have a wingspan of more than 5 feet. And as it migrates along Australia’s eastern coastal regions, ...

MANILA, Philippines — Environment officials have documented a rare instance of nursing behavior between an endangered large flying fox mother and her pup during a wildlife monitoring activity in ...

Look around as Indian flying foxes leave their roost for the night, and watch Field in Focus to learn more about how and why wildlife veterinarians with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology ...

Wildlife ecologists are baffled by flying foxes that are not roosting at many of their favoured summer locations across New South Wales this year. Thousands of the creatures seasonally occupy Cook ...

There are over 1,400 bat species in the world, and they are almost exclusively nocturnal. Bats have traditionally been classified as Microchiroptera, or microbats, and Megachiroptera, or megabats.