The bat in question is not the animal we are familiar with, but the immensely larger fruit bat, the flesh of which is readily eaten.
They live in caves, and not as the large fruit bats of India, which repose head downwards, hanging from trees in great colonies.
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Fruitbatniche dynamics: their role in maintaining tropical forest diversity.
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Hence, habitat heterogeneity may be a key factor promotingfruitbatspecies diversity in old-growth palaeotropical forests.
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Bulmer'sfruitbatis a cave-dweller that occurs in mid-montane forests.
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We hypothesise that these long flights over 'foodless' areas would not be compatible with the foraging strategy of certain fruit bats.
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Old world fruit bats can be long-distance seed dispersers through extended retention of viable seeds in the gut.
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Jamaican fruit bats are most active at midnight; following that, activity begins to die down.
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Livingstone's fruit bats roost in trees, in groups of six to 160 individuals, with up to eight trees per site.
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Differences in home range size and foraging strategies may explain why understoreyfruitbatspecies are more sensitive to fragmentation than canopy ones.
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Flyingfruitbatfaunas of the upper canopy in two paleotropical rain forests.
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However, this species certainly has the ability to travel through the trees as it is often found nearfruitbatroosts.
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Thefruitbathas greater ecological importance in wet habitats.
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Thefruitbatmay create its own tent to roost in by altering broad leaves.
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The wings of thefruitbatare broad and dark gray in color.
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Feeding behaviour and foraging strategies of captive phyllostomid fruit bats: an experimental study.
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The new forest also provides a food source for fruit bats that pollinate durian flowers.
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