Volume 9
Issue 4
- On Fruits, Seeds, and Bats
- Into the Rain Forest
- THE BAT AMBASSADORS
- Director of Education Attends Conference in Costa Rica
- Arizona Bat Colony Vandals Apprehended
- IN TRIBUTE. Luis Facundo Bacardi: 1944-1991
- BCI Receives Awards
- WISH LIST
- Invest in the future of bats with BCI’s Visa® Gold and Classic Visa® cards
- In flight meal service
- ON THE COVER
- BCI Hosts Bat Research Symposium
- Following the Nectar Trail
Fruit bats, also known as flying foxes, are vital seed–dispersers in many parts of Africa (story, page 8). Yet these gentle animals are persecuted as nuisances and many populations are declining. Because most produce only one pup each year, recovery from decimated populations is slow. This Gambian epauleted bat (Epomophorus gambianus) mother carries her nursing young as she flies out to feed at night.