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Meet Lil' Drac. The orphaned short-tailed fruit bat was abandoned by his stressed-out mother (not an uncommon behavior, apparently) and was rescued and hand-raised by volunteers from Bat World Sanctuary. Thanks to bad portrayal in movies, we are so...

Lesser short-nosed fruit bat. Photo by Anton Croos via National Geographic. Bats represent an enormous amount of the mammal species alive today, but we still have a lot to learn about them. We have direct experience with a particularly large species...

Link your Kroger card with Bat World to give some of your grocery shopping money each week to our little pollinating, mosquito-eating bats!  Feel free to forward to your friends and cross-post to other groups.  Our little bats will love you...

In April 2014, just after world health officials identified a series of suspicious deaths in Guinea as an outbreak of Ebola, 10 ecologists, 4 veterinarians, and an anthropologist traveled to a Guinean village named Meliandou. Theirs was a detective mission...

HOW THE BATS SAVED CHRISTMAS   Once upon a time, Santa and the reindeer were delivering presents in the Texas Panhandle and became lost in the middle of a big snowstorm. A colony of Mexican free-tailed bats happened to be migrating to Mexico...