Bats by the millions routinely travel between Mexico and the United States. After wintering in Mexico, many bats, like the Mexican freetails, migrate northward to hunt plentiful insects, give birth and rear young. Others, such as the nectar-eating lesser long-nosed bats, follow the flowering of agave and other desert plants into the American Southwest....more

Grace Trust, a non-profit group dedicated to empowering women and children in India, added bat conservation to its agenda this year. The Trust developed bat-education materials, explained the importance and needs of bats to key women and students, held rallies and presented community slide shows in the Madurai area of southern India. The new direction was...more

A little nectar-feeding bat from Latin America metabolizes sugar more than three times as fast as a human athlete – and probably faster than any other mammal on Earth, BBC News reports.

Scientists from Germany and the United Kingdom said Pallas’ long-tongued bats need to burn sugars at a remarkable rate because “they hover like hummingbirds, and this kind of flight uses up a great deal of energy.” ...more