As this species is not bred in captivity, all the bats are taken from the wild. “Painted woolly bats should be flying free in their native forests, not nailed to a wall in the United States,” said ...

A painted bat leaving its banana leaf roost ... stands out against the darkness Our final challenge was to film the bats flying at night. For this we created an enclosure in the wild that we ...

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 ...