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Everybody who visits Kasanka National Park in Zambia during "bat season" agrees that the evening emergence of African straw-colored fruit bats from their roost site is one of the wildlife wonders of the world. The bats (Eidolon helvum) arrive at Kasanka every year around October. The numbers swell rapidly until they peak in November. By January they are gone again.

In a new study on treating aging and diseases, scientists found that bats have the ability to alter cancer-related genes. Read more here.

90% of the little brown bat population in Pennsylvania has succumbed to white-nose syndrome. The species is now listed as endangered. Read more here.