LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Of the thousands of bats produced at the Slugger Museum every day, one stands above the rest. At 120 feet tall, the iconic Big Bat paints the Louisville skyline and catches ...

The wildlife trade is a major issue that affects biodiversity conservation. Although it is a significant part of the global economy, putting a price on species can only lead to devastating population ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and Monitor Conservation Research Society filed a legal petition today asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect painted woolly bats under ...

In the first comprehensive study ever put together on the illegal dead bat ornament trade, researchers publishing in the European Journal of Wildlife Research learned that one species in particular — ...

With hues of orange and black on its wings and a furry, fluffy face, the painted woolly bat is a stunner. But its beauty has become a deadly liability. People want to hang the bats — dead and stuffed ...

A fiery orange bat, its wings folded and tiny teeth forever bared on its fuzzy face, is mounted inside a 6-inch, black coffin. Its retail price: $59. Or, for $140, you can get one framed with its ...

Bat researchers recently declared a “major victory” in helping stop the online ornamental trade of bats, especially the painted woolly bat that’s sought as a décor or trinket for its brightly colored ...

WASHINGTON— Trade in painted woolly bats, largely driven by demand in the United States, is likely unsustainable and illegal, according to a first-of-its-kind study published in the European Journal ...

In their native Southeast Asia, painted woolly bats often gather in pairs or small groups, roosting in tree hollows and on the underside of suspended bird nests, leaves, and eaves of buildings.

A painted woolly bat, or Kerivoula picta, roosts under a leaf in Indonesia. Unlike its cave-dwelling cousins, this species does not live in groups, but as individuals or pairs in fields and forests in ...