Flying foxes are hosts of the Hendra viruses, which can be transmitted to horses—and subsequently humans—causing an often-deadly disease. iStock What Is the Hendra Virus?

Why Australians Are Growing to Appreciate These Giant, Threatened Bats Once seen as a menace, the gray-headed flying fox brings new life after recent devastating wildfires ...

Flying foxes, or fruit bats, are familiar to many Australians. So it may come as a surprise to learn two of the four mainland species, both gray-headed and spectacled flying foxes, are threatened ...

After four years of conservation action, the number of flying foxes — large bat species — flocking to the Indonesian island of Mantawalu Daka has grown from around 8,000 to 40,000, according ...

From some 8,000 miles away, Mississippi State scientist Manuel Ruiz-Aravena in the university’s Forest and Wildlife Research Center is studying flying foxes, or fruit bats, in Australia to determine ...

Now we know how habitat destruction and spillover are linked, we can act. Protecting the eucalyptus species flying foxes rely on will reduce the risk of the virus spreading to horses and then humans.

Zoo visitors can find the flying foxes in their new habitat adjacent to the tree-kangaroos, staff said. The group of flying foxes is just the latest rare addition to the San Antonio Zoo this year.

They are not related to foxes, except perhaps for their cunning nature. It could be the bat's size, odd looks, nocturnal behavior or sheer numbers that has made generations of Australians uneasy ...

SAN ANTONIO — The zoo is welcoming a colony of flying foxes back after being gone since the 1980s. The seven boys, Rufio, Bruce, Guapo, Homer, Count, Mickey, and Yoda, and 11 girls all have ...

SAN ANTONIO — The zoo is welcoming a colony of flying foxes back after being gone since the 1980s. The seven boys, Rufio, Bruce, Guapo, Homer, Count, Mickey, and Yoda, and 11 girls all have ...