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The Guam flying fox (Pteropus tokudae), also known as the little Marianas fruit bat, is an extinct species of small megabat endemic to Guam in the Marianas Islands in Micronesia that was confirmed extinct due to hunting or habitat changes. [1] It was first recorded in 1931 and was observed roosting with the larger and much more common Mariana ...
The Mariana fruit bat (Pteropus mariannus), also known as the Mariana flying fox, and the fanihi in Chamorro, is a megabat found only in the Mariana Islands and Ulithi (an atoll in the Caroline Islands). [3] Habitat loss has driven it to endangered status, and it is listed as threatened by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
Flying foxes are killed and sold for bushmeat in several countries in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Oceania, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Bangladesh, China, [89] Fiji, and Guam. [90] Flying fox consumption is particularly common in countries with low food security and lack of environmental regulation. [91]
A new tally after taxonomic revisions and the establishment of a population of Guam rail on Cocos Island, [16] indicates there are now 5 of 16 native terrestrial (non-migratory) birds that remain in the wild on Guam: the Micronesian starling, [17] yellow bittern [18] (not endemic), and three endangered birds (Guam rail, Mariana common moorhen ...
Family: Pteropodidae (flying foxes, Old World fruit bats) Subfamily: Pteropodinae. Genus: Pteropus. Mariana fruit bat, Pteropus mariannus EN; Guam flying fox, Pteropus tokudae EX; Family: Emballonuridae. Genus: Emballonura. Polynesian sheath-tailed bat, Emballonura semicaudata EN (extirpated from Guam)
Beijing has unveiled a new tactic on Taiwan, the democratic island it claims as its own, officials and experts say: large-scale drills with no fanfare to normalise a heightened military presence ...
Large Palau flying fox: Pteropus pilosus: Palau: Known from two individuals collected before 1874. The causes of extinction are unknown. [10] Guam flying fox: Pteropus tokudae: Guam: Last known individual was killed in 1968, with an unconfirmed sighting happening in the late 1970s.
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