In Africa's greatest mammal migration, around 10 million fruit bats travel from Congo to Kasanka National Park in Zambia every year. But they are under threat from hunters and habitat loss.

So why a bat? This quarter honors the National Park of American Samoa. The park is the only one in the U.S. that is home to the Samoan fruit bat ... status due to habitat loss and commercial ...

The paper studied Hendra spillovers from fruit bats in subtropical eastern Australia, which have risen since 2006. It found that habitat loss combined with climate-induced food shortages explained ...