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| | Pteropus livingstonii, Comoro black flying fox - Animals, Mammals at The Natural History Museum, London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
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 | | Livingston's flying fox, also named after its habitat of the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean, belongs to the Pteropodinae subfamily within Pteropodidae; the single family of the suborder Megachiroptera of megabats. |
 | | The large eye sockets of the skull are typical of megabats, who rely on their eyes for navigation since (except for the Egyptian fruit bat) they do not have the echolocating ability of microbats. |
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