Bats are unique. Even though they share the characteristics of all mammals - hair, regulated body temperature, the ability to bear their young alive and nurse them - bats are the only mammals to truly ...

Leucism is the absence of pigmentation in an animal's skin or fur – but, unlike albinism, does not affect the color of the ...

This is known as being nocturnal. There's roughly 1,400 bat species living around the world, most of them are nocturnal, but not all of them. When bats are hanging upside down they feel safer ...

ODFW emphasizes that “less than 1/10th of 1% of all bats are believed to carry rabies,” and infected bats are rarely aggressive, typically succumbing to the disease quickly. Despite this ...

Bats in southeastern Arizona have tested positive for a fungus that poses a threat to the species, prompting wildlife officials to urge the public to report any potential infections. A bat that ...

She told CNN, “We should be more concerned about issues like bird flu and its impact on cows, cats, and all kinds of other mammals than a new coronavirus isolated from a group of bats in China that ...