Tag: "flying foxes"

Producer's Notes for Cool Critters: Fruit Bats

Producer's Notes for Cool Critters: Fruit Bats

In honor of Halloween this month, Quest offers up a short story on bats. But these are not your screeching, swarming, bloodsucking Hollywood movie bats.

 
Joan Johnson

Post on Oct 14, 2008 by

Fur is Flying – Bay Area Bats* in peril

Fur is Flying – Bay Area Bats* in peril

Look! Up in the night sky! It's a bird! It's a bloodsucker! No, it is a beneficial friend, the bat! Bats have been around for about 50 million years and are among the earth's oldest animals: they also are some of the most misunderstood. Because they are nocturnal and strange looking, people have associated bats [...]

 
Amy Gotliffe

Post on Oct 25, 2007 by