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 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.

Painted woolly bats are being sold on Amazon, eBay and Etsy in a "frivolous" and illegal online trade, said The Times, and the trade could pose a danger not only to bat species, but also to humans ...

(NewsNation) — An orange bat species is under threat due to the sale of stuffed and mounted specimens as home decor, researchers report. The “near threatened” kerivoula picta, or painted ...

Despite declining numbers in the wild, hundreds of specimens like this of Kerivoula picta—or painted wooly bat—are being sold on Etsy, eBay and Amazon as jewelry, Halloween decorations ...