This Artibeus fruit bat feasts on sugary fruit every night but these winged mammals don’t suffer from diabetes or other metabolic problems as humans might if we were to gorge on sugar. Some bats like ...

Human beings are not the only ones with a sweet tooth. Fruit bats are named after their love of sugary fruits. In fact, they can eat double their body weight in fruit, which is their main source of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Fruit-eating bats play an important role in maintaining forest health by being seed dispersers. For decades, researchers have explored ways to ...

Bats are critical players in global ecosystems, pollinating plants, dispersing seeds and eating huge numbers of insects.

The nocturnal exhibit at the Lake Superior Zoo is home to 12 Egyptian fruit bats and two African straw-colored fruit bats. Fruit bats eat fruit, as you probably can guess. This differs from Minnesota ...

Korine, Carmi and Kalko, Elisabeth Klara Viktoria. 2005. "Fruit Detection and Discrimination by Small Fruit-Eating Bats (Phyllostomidae): Echolocation Call Design and Olfaction." Behavioral Ecology ...