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 ...

Nine common creatures are considered pollinators—bats, birds, butterflies ... bats that live under the bridge come out to ...

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 ...