The Malayan flying fox has many names, including the greater flying fox, kalong, and large fruit bat. Its most accurate name is the latter because the Malayan flying fox is not actually a fox.

This fruit bat species is widely hunted in Indonesia ... "Disastrous decline: Spectacled flying-fox nominated as Critically Endangered." Humane Society International. Roberts, B., ...

Like many fruit bats, the Little Mariana species had a small, fox-like face and a brown, furry body, giving rise to its alternative name, the Mariana – or Guam – flying fox. In the 1960s ...

They hang in the trees like bunches of fruit and, since the early ... supporters are now speaking out for the bats. Caregivers routinely adopt flying fox orphans and find them delightfully smart.

Banner image: The Sulawesi flying fox is considered vulnerable to extinction ... Protecting a key insular population of the Sulawesi Fruit Bat Acerodon celebensis. Conservation Science and Practice.

Mesh netting over urban fruit trees can ... says Clare Wynter, flying fox coordinator with Canberra-based rescue organization ACT Wildlife. “You don’t have one bat coming back to the same ...

The Pteropus dasymallus daitonensis, better known as the Daito flying fox, is the only mammal indigenous ... a resident of Minami Daito Island spotted a young fruit bat bleeding in the street ...

He added that fruit bats and plants dependent on them for pollination ... As per our estimates, around 80% of the Indian flying fox colonies currently known to us in India will be lost in the ...

It was more than two weeks before doctors even realized what they were treating, the fourth outbreak in five years of the lethal, brain-swelling Nipah virus in India’s Kerala region. By then ...

DENR-12 said the area is recognized as roosting site for two fruit bat species – large fying fox and island flying fox. “These bats play a crucial ecological role in seed dispersal and pollination, ...