Fruit bat, commonly known as flying foxe or megabat

Fruit bats, commonly known as flying foxes or megabats, are a captivating group of mammals belonging to the suborder Megachiroptera. Renowned for their fruit-based diet, they play vital roles as pollinators and seed dispersers in tropical and subtropical ecosystems worldwide. Characterized by large eyes and fox-like faces, these bats boast impressive wingspans, roosting in colonies in trees, caves, or abandoned structures. Their social nature extends to familial bonds, with mothers caring for one or two pups annually. Fruit bats' economic significance arises from their role in pollinating commercial crops such as durian and mango. Despite their ecological importance, fruit bats face conservation challenges, including habitat loss, hunting, and human-wildlife conflicts. Conservation efforts focus on preserving their habitats, raising awareness, and mitigating conflicts, recognizing the indispensable role these creatures play in maintaining ecosystem health and biodiversity.
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Bats are lovely, no interest in humans, teeth are for breaking fruit skins and insects, tongue placed for ease of sipping nectar. People should know that bats cannot fly off the ground, they must "drop into flight", so a bat on the ground is not necessarily sick and may even be a infant or baby bat that has fallen off their mum who carries them with her at all times until fully weaned. Placing a box over the bat and calling a sanctuary or rescue in your area. Hanging bats will "big wing" and "chatter" loudly to discourage contact, complain even more loudly when wrapped for security to be taken to a rescue or sanctuary to determine if fit to fly and care for itself. The bats wing has all the identical bones of a human arm: If you look at the skeletal structure of a bat’s wing, it is almost identical to that of a human hand and arm, only elongated and much, much smaller.
Bats also have a thin membrane of elastic-like skin that stretches across the fingers to form the wing.
This membrane is so thin they appear semitransparent when flying.

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