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Fruit bats, also known as flying foxes or megabats, are the 197 species of bats that make up the suborder Megachiroptera, found throughout the tropics of Africa, Asia, and Oceania, of which 186 are extant.
There are an estimated 1,300 species of bat. [1] Suborder Yinpterochiroptera ... List of fruit bats; List of horseshoe bats; List of bats by location
The Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge, which crosses over Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas, is the world's largest urban bat colony. Seventeen species of bats live in the Carlsbad Caverns National Park, including a large number of Mexican free-tailed bats. [1]
The Egyptian fruit bat is the only megabat whose range is mostly in the Palearctic realm; [113] it and the straw-colored fruit bat are the only species found in the Middle East. [113] [114] The northernmost extent of the Egyptian fruit bat's range is the northeastern Mediterranean. [113] In East Asia, megabats are found only in China and Japan.
Pteropus (suborder Yinpterochiroptera) is a genus of megabats which are among the largest bats in the world. They are commonly known as fruit bats or flying foxes, among other colloquial names. They live in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, East Africa, and some oceanic islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. [3]
They primarily eat a variety of insects, fruit, nectar, and pollen, though the greater spear-nosed bat, big-eared woolly bat, and spectral bat will also eat birds, bats, and small mammals, and the three vampire bat species of the subfamily Desmodontinae solely consume blood. [1]
This category contains articles about taxa in the Pteropodidae family - the fruit bats. Subcategories This category has the following 28 subcategories, out of 28 total.
East African epauletted fruit bat; East African little collared fruit bat; Eastern greenish yellow bat; Eger's long-fingered bat; Egyptian free-tailed bat; Egyptian fruit bat; Egyptian mouse-tailed bat; Egyptian slit-faced bat; Egyptian tomb bat; Eisentraut's serotine; Ejeta's yellow bat; Eloquent horseshoe bat; Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat