Tag: bats
Baby bats babble like baby humans, new study shows
Greater sac-winged bats, native to Central and South America, babble like human children to develop their voice in their younger years.
COVID-19 went from bats to another animal and then humans: WHO report
A joint WHO-China study has concluded that it's very likely that COVID-19 first passed to humans from a bat through another animal.
Bats get star treatment in France: Humans, not animals, are to blame for viruses
At the Bourges Natural History museum in central France, researchers tenderly feed insects and kitten milk formula to tiny orphaned bats.
China looks at wildlife trade ban but abusing wild animals for traditional medicine likely to continue
As China's government prepares new laws to ban the trade and consumption of wild animals, local action plans published this week suggest that the country's fur trade and traditional medicine sectors will continue as usual.
Thousands of baby flying foxes starve after Australian bushfires
Around 2000 baby grey-headed flying foxes have died after being abandoned by their mothers in the latest wildlife devastation in Australia caused by severe drought and bushfires.