Female bats only give birth to one offspring each year, so swarming in the autumn is "critical" for raising the next year’s generation of bats, he added. Yorkshire Water Barnsley Council has now ...

"What this means is that the bat birth is more or less synchronised with the time of emergence of insects so that when bats give birth there are plenty of resources to feed on and then to feed ...

Though many bats give birth to singletons or twins, they can have up to five babies in a litter, and it can be exhausting for such a little creature to fly with so much weight. Apparently ...