The Chronicle

How do Australian Flying Foxes compare to Blue Devil Baseball and Softball players?

Motivating the public to conserve flying foxes is tricky, as they have a reputation for being noisy and social at night (not ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Meet the Bat-Eared Fox, an Unusual Animal That Can Hear Insects Burrowing Underground

Get to know the bat-eared fox, an insect-eating creature found in the grasslands and savannas of Africa (and also the Smithsonian’s National Zoo.) Mike Bock This peculiar-looking canine lives in the ...
Mississippi State University

From the Deep South to Down Under: MSU flying fox research, new technology combine to prevent viral transmission

STARKVILLE, Miss.—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 ...
Nature

How the world’s biggest bats got their enormous wingspans

Island life has given the world’s largest bats their gargantuan wingspans, which can reach nearly 2 metres 1. Flying foxes, a group of some 80 bat species found on islands across the Pacific and ...