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Seba's short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata) lives in the subtropical and tropical forests of Central and South America, where it mostly feeds on pepper fruit.

Bats carry some of the deadliest zoonotic diseases that can infect both humans and animals, such as Ebola and COVID-19.

With Halloween quickly approaching, we thought it suitable to dispel some common myths about our winged friends, bats.

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.

University of Exeter scientists identified seven bat species and 66 insect species (90% of which were moths) in the Pass of Bujaruelo, near Spain's border with France. The paper, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, is entitled, "Bat activity correlated with migratory insect bioflows in the Pyrenees."

Scientists have revealed the diets of endangered Indiana bats and vulnerable northern long-eared bats, offering information to help manage both species and their habitats more efficiently.

Louisiana is said to be the 41st state in the US where the pathogen that causes the white-nose syndrome disease was found.