Power and Water says bats have been roosting on power lines in the remote NT town of Elliott.

Residents in the remote NT town of Elliott say they're fed up with regular power outages caused by fruit bats roosting on powerlines. Utility company Power and Water says staff have been ...

They gave up their keys to the bank voluntarily in May, closing the door on the bat-infested house. Rachelle said that as far as the bank is concerned, they just stopped making their mortgage ...

Researchers tracked how vampire bats processed their blood meals as they sped along a treadmill for up to 90 minutes. Trilobites Scientists put the bloodsucking mammals on a treadmill to ...

A pair of biologists at the University of Toronto has found that vampire bats are able to burn amino acids as a fuel source similarly to blood-sucking insects. In their study published in the ...

Vampire bats have become such specialized bloodsuckers that they metabolize their food more like some blood-feeding flies than like other known mammals, a new experiment shows. The common vampire ...

All the experts who spoke to Newsweek said that fruit wouldn't be their first choice for protein, but that it could help contribute towards daily intakes. Nutritional therapist and cookbook author ...

Longleat Safari Park is set to reopen its bat cave in early 2025. The attraction, which was closed in 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic, will welcome around 30 Egyptian fruit bats. Simon Askew, ...

The garden is located near the zoo’s Bat Island Roost, which is home to an estimated 8% of the total global Livingstone’s fruit bat population. Ms Shaw added: "Loving bats as much as I do and ...