Microbats rely on insect activity and thrive when insects are out in numbers. Come spring, bats in their thousands rouse themselves from a period of quiet or a winter holiday and take to the skies. In ...

A new report on the wildlife in Australia has found that one of the country’s most populous mammals is also one of its most easily missed: the microbat. According to researchers at the Mallee ...

A bat the size of a bumblebee? It's no joke—many of the flying mammals come in miniature. There are about 1,000 species of these so-called "microbats," whose body sizes range from a little over an ...

Here’s your chance to play scientist for a night and help microbat research. IF YOU’VE EVER WANTED to be a scientist, here’s your chance. Biologists are calling on Melbourne citizens to help trap ...

But it may be a hero of the animal underworld, able to blend with the shadows and catch insects mid-flight. A colony of 18 Little Broad-Nosed Bats were taken to Australia Zoo's Wildlife Hospital on ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. When ecologist Doug Mills started out trying to tally threatened Australian microbats as they streamed out of their caves, traditional ...

Bats Qld (Flying Foxes & Microbats) Inc. is doing God's work. The volunteer-run, not-for-profit organization rescues, rehabilitates, and releases Flying Foxes and Microbats across South East ...

A volunteer wildlife group took 47 microbats from the Dularcha Railway Tunnel in Mooloolah Valley to the famous animal hospital in Beerwah on Sunday with “severe burns and toxic fume inhalation”. Most ...

Townsville has a secret weapon in the fight against mozzies with a resident sharing a video of a massive flock of microbats visiting his Kirwan property. Check out the video. A small microbat can ...

In the tropics, bats are active all year round, while in temperate areas many bats migrate or enter a period of torpor during winter, emerging again in September, and remaining active until April.