KOZHIKODE: Prof. Stephen Luby, the Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine) at Stanford University in the United States, has said Pteropus genus fruit bat hosts the Nipah ...

We investigated the social organization of Bonin flying foxes (Pteropus pselaphon) in a roost and the seasonal shift of roosting sites in relation to the reproductive cycle on Chichi-jima Island, ...

Bat genomes are characterised by an A-T richness and by a small C-value compared with other mammalian groups. It has been suggested that the small C-value is mainly due to the lack of repetitive DNA ...

One of the world’s least-known flying foxes could face extinction by rising seas and changing precipitation patterns due to global warming, according to a new study in Zookeys. The research, headed by ...

Australia’s flying-foxes are vital pollinators of our flowering forests and a raft of species, humans included, rely on that. Australia is home to five flying-fox species – four on the mainland and ...

The Mortlock Islands flying fox, a large, breadfruit-eating bat native to a few remote and tiny Pacific islands, has long been regarded as one of the world’s least studied bats. For more than 140 ...

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Yvonne Blomer has made the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize longlist for Pteropus: Fruit Bats. "I am working on a book-length manuscript titled Death of Persephone: A Murder Mystery and wanted to include poems ...