Every Halloween, fake bats flutter through horror movies and paper versions hang from the ceiling at parties in an effort to add to the scare factor. But a Virginia woman who helps rescue the real ...

A fringe-lipped bat, “Trachops cirrhosus” (Photo: Lars Heiden/ STRI) How do you train a wild animal to come back to you after you have set it free? If it is a fringe-lipped bat, Trachops cirrhosus, ...

On view in PEM's "Bats!" exhibit, Tony Rubino’s “Love Hate Bat” captures the strong, conflicted emotions that bats have evoked. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Halloween is creeping up, and the Peabody Essex ...