With a face like that, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the ghost bat wouldn’t hurt a fly, but inside that cute little head are some formidable chompers – the kind that could easily gnaw a hole in the neck of a dove, a lizard or even another bat.
We’ve a lot of love for this daylight-loving larrikin.
Falling for these flying puppies is as easy as watching this short film.
The birthing process for flying foxes may be more complex than we think.
Understanding a bat’s immune system and replicating it in humans may just prevent disease outbreaks in the future.
A lack of food resources in south-east Queensland is resulting in mass deaths of flying-foxes.
Living in comfort and style.
Bats are the only mammals on Earth that can use their own power to fly. Sure, flying squirrels, lemurs, and possums exist, but like this airborne frog, they’re faking it.
In a bid to understand more about Australia’s microbat populations, scientists from the University of Adelaide are asking the public to use bat detectors to record and analyse each species unique calls.
For more than 20 years, volunteers led by Jenny Maclean have been helping flying-foxes afflicted by tick paralysis on the Atherton Tablelands.