An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say. The interval between the ...

Bats are known to chew and spit out leaves, like humans chew and spit out tobacco or coca, but this is the first continuous recording of a bat eating entire leaves Elisabeth King Portrait of a ...

With the exception of three flower-eating species that migrate from Mexico ... She catches and holds the new born in the pouch formed by the interfemoral membrane. The baby bat, already large and well ...

And watches. The trees are nurseries for the greater sac-winged bat (Saccopteryx bilineata), where each mother bat roosts close to her pup. When Fernandez notices one of the baby bats opening its ...

More than 50 people have died in the northwest Democratic Republic of Congo from a mystery illness that first appeared in ...

According to the WHO's Africa office, the first outbreak in the town of Boloko began after three children ate a bat and died within 48 hours following hemorrhagic fever symptoms. There have long ...

Chimps switched to bat guano when farmers deforested their favorite tree food In a new study, scientists found 27 new viruses in the guano chimps are eating The viruses could make the leap to ...