Some fruit bats eat up to twice their body weight in sugary mangoes, bananas, or figs every day to not only survive, but thrive. Unlike humans, these flying mammals can have an essentially permanent ...

Bats are able to consume an extraordinary amount of sugar with no ill effects. Scientists are trying to learn more about how bats do it — and... Some bats eat a ton of sugar and have no health woes.

Human beings are not the only ones with a sweet tooth. Fruit bats are named after their love of sugary fruits. In fact, they ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- Scott Pedersen was a big fan of bats, long before the current blockbuster movie hit the screens, or the last one and the one before that. A professor in the South Dakota State ...

Did you know that Texas has more bat species than any other state in the U.S.? Of the 47 bat species in America, we have 32. Texas also has the largest known bat colony in the world at Bracken Cave ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bats, lauded for scooping up mosquitoes and other nasty pests but reviled for drinking blood and spreading rabies, now have another unpopular habit to live down -- it appears ...

Fan of backyard barbecues but don't care for mosquitos? Consider putting up a bat house, also called a bat box. Thirteen species of bats call Florida home, and all of them spend their nights feasting ...

This Artibeus fruit bat feasts on sugary fruit every night but these winged mammals don’t suffer from diabetes or other metabolic problems as humans might if we were to gorge on sugar. Some bats like ...