Flying foxes are hosts of the Hendra viruses, which can be transmitted to horses—and subsequently humans—causing an often-deadly disease. A split image showing an Australian flying fox fruit ...

A grey-headed flying fox with a pup. (Photo by Manuel Ruiz-Aravena) Recent habitat destruction has pressured Australian flying foxes to forage on fruits or non-native flowers, which puts them into ...

Flying foxes are typically nomadic, flying vast distances across the landscape. When eucalypts burst into flower in specific areas, these bats will descend on the abundant food and congregate in ...

The death of an unvaccinated horse from Hendra virus this week in southeast Queensland is the state’s first reported case in ...

Pollen sticks to their fur, and they also ingest fruits, which makes them excellent seed-spreaders. A single flying fox can spread as many as 60,000 seeds per night.

But our decade-long survey of one of these species—the gray-headed flying fox—brings some encouraging news. Our data show the population has been relatively stable since 2012, when surveys ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Bats have lived with coronaviruses for millennia. Details are still hazy about how one of these viruses evolved into SARS-CoV-2, which causes <a ...