It’s not hard to find bats for sale in the marketplaces of Bolivia. They’re usually tucked away in pungent shoeboxes, some with as many as 20 bats jammed together, the live ones crawling over ...

“Many bats reproduce slowly,” she says, so the animals are vulnerable to overexploitation. Last October alone, more than 500 listings of dead bats appeared on Etsy, and 71 on eBay; a few ran ...

The good news is that no captured bats have tested positive for rabies. Eagle County Animal Control Services field services manager Nathan Lehnert said the past few weeks have been “very busy” with ...

K. picta is a finger-length bat prized for its striking orange and black coloring and long, woolly fur.The bats live in parts of South, East and Southeast Asia, roosting in leaves and hunting insects ...