The giant golden-crowned flying fox is the largest bat on Earth, a colossal megabat native to the forests of the Philippines ...

There are over 1,400 bat species in the world, and they are almost exclusively nocturnal. Bats have traditionally been classified as Microchiroptera, or microbats, and Megachiroptera, or megabats.

Flying foxes, or fruit bats, are familiar to many Australians. So it may come as a surprise to learn two of the four mainland species, both gray-headed and spectacled flying foxes, are threatened with ...

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