These flowers are being pollinated, but through self-pollination ... Much like the hummingbird, the fruit bat prefers pendulous flowers so that it can fly in place while feeding.

The driving force behind the bat-flower partnership is not romance but the primary business of life: survival and reproduction. Trading nectar for pollination is a delicate transaction ...

Dubbed the "Bat Man of Mexico," Medellín convinced agave farmers to set aside part of their land to allow the plants there to flower and be pollinated. He also worked with a nonprofit to ...

Some bat species eat an incredible number ... small mammals and bees. More than 500 plant species count on bats for ...