You Won’t Believe How These Flying Mammals Save Our Planet Every Night. Bats, those mysterious creatures that often send shivers down our spines, are actually working tirelessly to keep our ecosystems ...

Photographing nectar-eating bats pollinating flowers at night is a challenge. But Cristobal was fortunate to be staying in a house that backed onto the rainforest in Costa Rica. Here, the rainforest ...

This story appears in the March 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Nature’s inventiveness knows no bounds. Consider the case of the nectar-drinking bat and the night-flowering vine ...

Bats pollinate at night, much like butterflies and bees pollinate during the day. They are the only night time animal that aids pollination. Dr Shannon Browne, wildlife expert and lecturer at ...

Researchers have discovered a new global threat to pollination - artificial light at night, which was found to reduce visits of nocturnal pollinators to flowers by 62%. The impact of this is a ...

After a night of searching for nectar, mother bats return to the roost to feed ... their land to allow the plants there to flower and be pollinated. He also worked with a nonprofit to establish ...