The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

...'extinct within six months unless taken into captivity immediately to set up an emergency captive breeding programme for future re-re...

Half of vertebrate species may be gone by the end of this century. Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction? is good on, among other th...

If hope and fear don’t guarantee compliance, there’s always embarrassment. Vampire bats are famous for their willingness to regurgitate a bl...

Two species of tropical bats thought to issue feeble calls -- a bug-eater called the long-legged bat and the Jamaican fruit bat -- send out ...

It was broad daylight in the middle of winter, and bats flew out of the mine about one a minute. Some had fallen to the ground where they fl...