These summer nights are warm and calm. They are very alive with all sorts of critters. The usual nocturnal rabbits, porcupines, foxes and deer move about and feed now. Owls call and search for meals ...

Different kinds of bats get bitten by different kinds of bat flies: blind, flightless insects that somehow are able to be picky about the kind of bats they go after. In a study inspired by research ...

Did you know that I can track birds and bats on the radar as they leave their roosts? Birds usually show up in the morning hours as a “roost ring”, and in the summer, Purple Martins are usually the ...

It is Bat Week, an international celebration of the flying mammals and their importance. I visited the San Diego Zoo Safari Park to get some bat facts. Bats get a bad rap. Maybe it's Bram Stoker's ...

Pallas' long-tongued bat in flight. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Feb. 29, 2008, issue of the journal Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Florian Muijres and ...

(WHTM) It’s the week to celebrate some of the most important, yet underappreciated, indeed maligned, creatures on the planet- the order Chiroptera, or bats. The word Chiroptera comes from the Greek ...

We humans aren’t the only animals that have to worry about bug bites. There are thousands of insect species that have evolved to specialize in feeding on different mammals and birds, but scientists ...