But our decade-long survey of one of these species—the gray-headed flying fox—brings some encouraging news. Our data show the population has been relatively stable since 2012, when surveys ...

Aug. 21 (UPI) --Flying foxes, or fruit bats, are the largest bats in the world, but new research in Australia suggests they aren't slowed by their size. According to a study published Friday in ...

Flying foxes are extremely valuable to the environment, so it's important to study the health of the population and their whereabouts. To answer the questions of where they go and what they feed ...

In 2015 and 2016, in the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, the government killed over 40,000 flying foxes as part of a mass cull campaign, even though the local species, Pteropus niger, is ...

In the 11 years since Denise Wade has been rehabilitating flying foxes, she estimates she's cared for thousands. Give or take a hundred or two every year, she says an annual count hovers at around ...

The flying foxes roost during the day and fly at night to feed. They weigh about eight pounds and have a wingspan of up to 5 1/2 feet wide. Flying foxes are back at the San Antonio Zoo.

The spectacled flying fox is not doing well. The population fell sharply from around 320,000 in 2004 to only 78,000 in 2018. Another 23,000 animals died in Cairns in 2018 during an extreme heat ...

Flying foxes are the largest bats on Earth, and consist of more than 60 species that live throughout remote islands of the Indian and Pacific oceans, as well is in parts of continental Asia and ...