At the Northumberland Zoo, in the UK, an ultra rare and extremely cute bat gave birth to a precious pup while hanging upside down and, for the first time ever, zoo staff were able to capture the ...

The bat enclosure has been closed for a week and the Livingstone fruit bats moved to a non-public area to make it easier for zookeepers to care for them. Matt Goetz, interim zoological director of ...

The Zoo looks after two endangered species of fruit bat, with eight Livingstone's and two Rodrigues dying from the infection. There are only approximately 100 Livingstone's fruit bats in captivity ...

Earlier this year, an outbreak of pasteurella, which can cause serious disease in a range of animals, swept through Durrell’s Livingstone’s fruit bat colony, the largest of its kind in Europe.

Bats are known as natural hosts for highly pathogenic viruses such as MERS- and SARS-related coronaviruses, as well as the Marburg and Nipah viruses. In contrast to the severe and often fatal disease ...

DENR-12 said the area is recognized as roosting site for two fruit bat species – large fying fox and island flying fox. “These bats play a crucial ecological role in seed dispersal and pollination, ...

“In Rwanda, one of the [bat] species of concern, although not threatened according to the IUCN Red List, is the Egyptian fruit bat [Rousettus aegyptiacus] because it has been identified by ...