With Halloween upon us, spooky symbols of the holiday abound — including bats. It just so happens to also be International Bat Week, which celebrates the role of bats in nature. Coincidence? Perhaps ...

Bats are one of a few animals associated with Halloween. But Connecticut environmentalists want residents to know these flying predators are nothing to fear! It is the possibility of losing them that ...

Bats are a natural to associate with Halloween. After all, vampires rank second to witches in their association with all things eerie. But as with all the plants and animals associated with this scary ...

Unfounded claims that bats get stuck in people’s hair, that all bats have rabies, and Hollywood’s influence (for example, the concept of blood-sucking vampires) often put bats in a negative light. The ...

Halloween is an opportunity to celebrate that which is creepy, spooky, scary, and sometimes stranger than fiction. And for many, the celebrations conjure up images of two specific animals: spiders and ...

Scary bat appears to try and scare the prairie dog.

The nocturnal exhibit at the Lake Superior Zoo is home to 12 Egyptian fruit bats and two African straw-colored fruit bats. Fruit bats eat fruit, as you probably can guess. This differs from Minnesota ...