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	PI-Endangered Species: Mariana Fruit Bat
		is a medium-sized bat measuring 195 to 250 mm from head to rump, with a wingspan of 860 to 1065 mm.
		Mariana fruit bats are found in Guam and CNMI, and move from island to island.
		Fruit bat colonies sleep during much of the day, but they perform many other activities as well such as grooming, breeding, scent rubbing, marking, flying, climbing to other roost spots, and defending roosting territories (harem males only).
	www.fws.gov /pacificislands/wesa/marianabatindex.html (710 words)

	Fruit bat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Not all fruit bats are large: the smallest species is 6 cm (2 inches) long and thus smaller than some microbats.
		Large fruit bats have to land in order to eat the fruits, while the smaller species are able to hover with flapping wings in front of a flower or fruit.
		Because of their large size and somewhat "spectral" appearance, fruit bats are sometimes used in horror movies to represent vampires or to lend an aura of spookiness.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fruit_bat (433 words)

	AllRefer.com - fruit bat (Vertebrate Zoology) - Encyclopedia
		The Pteropodidae, or flying foxes, are S Asian fruit bats whose short jaws and powerful teeth are specially adapted for piercing the rinds of tough fruit.
		The Macroglossidae, or long-tongued fruit bats, are widespread throughout S Asia, Africa, New Guinea, and Australia.
		Fruit bats are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Chiroptera.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/fruitbat.html (274 words)

	AWF: Wildlife: Bat
		Usually one bat is born a year to an adult female, which nurses the young for up to 4 months on her very rich milk.
		Bats are also slaughtered because of superstitions and the musky odors and noise emanating from their roosting places.
		The rapidly declining numbers of certain fruit bats is of concern to scientists who feel that bats are being eliminated before their role in the balance of nature is fully understood.
	www.awf.org /content/wildlife/detail/bat (834 words)

	fruit bat - Encyclopedia.com
		The Pteropodidae, or flying foxes, are S Asian fruit bats whose short jaws and powerful teeth are specially adapted for piercing the rinds of tough fruit.
		The Macroglossidae, or long-tongued fruit bats, are widespread throughout S Asia, Africa, New Guinea, and Australia.
		Fruit bats are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Chiroptera.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-fruitbat.html (491 words)

	Livingstone's fruit bat
		Fruit bats are sometimes called flying foxes, due to their dog-like muzzles and the soft, thick and often reddish fur that covers their head and bodies.
		For the first few weeks, the young bat clings to its mother, even when she flies off to feed, but eventually she parks the young bat, while she goes to feed, returning later to feed the youngster.
		Livingstone's fruit bats are particularly vulnerable to habitat loss as they are dependent upon the forest for food and roosting sites.
	www.bristolzoo.org.uk /learning/animals/mammals/fruit-bat (658 words)

	Lesser short-nosed fruit bat - Cynopterus brachyotis: More Information - ARKive
		Lesser short-nosed fruit bats become active shortly after sunset and fly directly to fruiting trees up to 2 km away (7) to feed on small fruits, including mangoes (6) and figs, as well as on nectar (8).
		The current decline in many populations of the lesser short-nosed fruit bat is due to deforestation of primary and secondary forests for timber and palm oil plantations.
		Fruit bats are also commonly persecuted by fruit farmers for the damage they do to their yield, although the importance of fruit bats in pollinating crops is often underestimated (1) (2).
	www.arkive.org /species/GES/mammals/Cynopterus_brachyotis/more_info.html (880 words)

	Straw-colored fruit bat
		The straw-colored fruit bat is found in Africa, and is the most widely distributed of the African fruit bats.
		Juice of various fruits are the preferred food, though this bat also feeds on the blossoms and perhaps young shoots of the silk-cotton tree.
		The straw-colored fruit bats occur in enormous colonies of 100,00 to 1,000,000 individuals of both sexes.
	www.batconservation.org /content/Strawcoloredfruitbatinfo.html (324 words)

	Welcome to Bat Conservation International
		in the wild, important agricultural plants, from bananas, breadfruit and mangoes to cashews, dates, and figs rely on bats for pollination and seed dispersal.
		BCI's mission is to teach people the value of bats, to protect and conserve critical bat habitats, and to advance scientific knowledge through research.
		The bats of Bracken Cave comprise the largest known colony in the world...
	www.batcon.org (140 words)

	Fruit Bat Skull
		Fruit Bat Skull - The fruit bat, also known as the "flying fox", is a member of the suborder Megachiroptera.
		These bats, as their name suggests, are large fruit eating bats achieving a wingspan of up to 6 feet.
		Fruit bats are an old world species and are found in Africa, Asia and Australia.
	www.skullsunlimited.com /Fruit_Bat.html (113 words)

	Livingstones Fruit Bat
		A baby Livingstones fruit bat was born at the Zoo December 15, 1996!
		After quarantine the 9 of the bats were released in the flight area at the Zoo.
		It is one of the biggest bats in the world, with a wingspan of up to five or six feet.
	www.thewildones.org /Animals/livstone.html (470 words)

	San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Bat
		Fruit— Fruit-eaters are drawn by the smell of ripe fruit and are important seed-dispersers.
		Bats are a crucial resident of healthy rain forest habitats.
		At the San Diego Zoo, the fruit bats are fed nectar and a variety of juicy fruits, including oranges, pears, grapes, and watermelon, as well as bananas and a bat pellet (to supplement their nutritional needs).
	www.sandiegozoo.org /animalbytes/t-bat.html (1104 words)

	Satonda Island: Home of the Fruit Bat
		The clumps in the trees are hanging fruit bats.
		On Guam, the fruit bats are called fanihi, and there are very few left because people have eaten nearly all of them.
		Fruit bats no longer darken the skies of Guam in the early evening.
	www.heptune.com /travel/satonda.html (477 words)

	Fruit Bat Printout- EnchantedLearning.com
		Fruit bats (Family Pteropodidae) are flying mammals that live in dense forests in Africa, Europe, Australia, and Asia.
		The long-tongued fruit bat (Macroglossus minimus) is one of the smallest fruit bats; it has a wingspan of 5-6 inches (13-15 cm).
		Fruit bats, like other Megachiropteran bats, use the sense of smell to find their food, fruit and/or nectar.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/mammals/bat/Fruitbatcoloring.shtml (306 words)

	Fruit Bats: WhoZoo
		The ancestry of bats is thought to be similar to that of primates.
		It is not uncommon for the bat to crush the fruit and simply drink the juices, while leaving the remaining pulp to fall to the ground and rot.
		Bats, being very loyal to their birthplace and hibernation sight, may use this in some way to plot their way from one destination to the other but scientists are unaware of exactly how they find their way back and forth every year.
	www.whozoo.org /students/dansch/fruitbat.htm (1138 words)

	Philippine Deforestation
		These bats roosted in caves near the coast, in rooms near the mouth of the cave where some dim light penetrated.
		Bats of many species that fell from the ceilings were roasted over the fires, a welcome source of protein to the impoverished workers.
		The largest of the bats, those that lived near the entrances and that offered the most meat, were entirely gone—the first mammalian species in the Philippines to be documented as extinct in modern times.
	www.fieldmuseum.org /vanishing_treasures/V_BBFruitBat.htm (358 words)

	Fruit Bats - Pteropus rodricensis - Flying Foxes - Information and Pictures of Fruit Eating Bats
		Fruit Bats have highly elongated noses packed full of highly sensitive olfactory cells or smelling cells due to their diet of fruit.
		Fruit Bats are magnificent animals and the large “Flying Foxes”; pose a mystery to science.
		Fruit Bats as well as all species of bat are extremely important to nature and man, and deserve protection to our highest capacity.
	www.tigerhomes.org /animal/fruit-bats.cfm (601 words)

	Payne, Nicholas, 1984. Fruit Bat Off the Menu? . BATS. Vol 1, No 1:1-2.
		Fruit bat or "fanihi" is considered the most important of the local delicacies and is in great demand for all important occasions such as weddings and fiestas.
		A large population of fruit bats, about 1,500-2,000, was counted on Rota in June 1983 by the Division of Fish and Wildlife, CNMI and confirmed by us in August.
		The Mariana's Fruit Bat is not as critically endangered as previously supposed, but it is still very vulnerable, considering its high commercial value as a delicacy.
	www.batcon.org /batsmag/v1n1-2.html (788 words)

	Animal Info - Bulmer's Fruit Bat
		Bulmer's fruit bat is a cave-dweller that occurs in mid-montane forests.
		Bulmer's fruit bat was first described from 12,000 year-old fossils found in the central highlands in Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea.
		A newborn Bulmer's fruit bat is carried for the first few weeks of its life by its mother while she forages.
	www.animalinfo.org /species/bat/aprobulm.htm (771 words)

	Egyptian Fruit Bat
		Fruit bats have grayish-brown coats with a lighter shade on the ventral side (stomach.) They have short, strong jaws and a wingspan of about 24 inches.
		Bats are nocturnal, and they find their way in the dark using high-pitched sounds, a process called echolocation.
		Fruit bats are known to fly about 25 miles from roosting site in search of food.
	www.blankparkzoo.com /en/explore_the_zoo/meet_the_animals_2/egyptian_fruit_bat.cfm (283 words)

	Flannery, Timothy F., 1994. The Rediscovery of Bulmer's Fruit Bat . BATS. Vol 12, No 1:3-5.
		Because the bats roosted on the roof of the cathedral-like chamber, they were largely immune to attack with bow and arrow, and only a few were taken at a time.
		As we approached, we were stunned to hear the cries of fruit bats rising from the floor.
		The bats are clearly very sensitive to human hunting, and as the numbers of humans in PNG increased, they were driven out of every roost except this one.
	www.batcon.org /batsmag/v12n1-1.html (1564 words)

	Egyptian fruit bat info.
		Egyptian fruit bats are in the genus Rousettus, there are 10 species of bats in this genera.
		Egyptian fruit bats are found throughout most of Africa, and especially in Egypt.
		Egyptian fruit bats can be found roosting in groups as small as 2 or 3 bats to as many as 2,000.
	www.batconservation.org /content/Egyptianfruitbatinfo.html (243 words)

	Spotted-winged fruit bat - Balionycteris maculata: More Information - ARKive
		This fruit-eating bat has a claw on the second digit of each hand, enabling it to cling to fruit trees (2) and break into tough-skinned fruit with its strong jaws (3).
		Occurring mainly in forest habitats, the spotted-winged fruit bat roosts primarily in the lower canopy.
		It is found from the lowlands to montane forest, and prefers to roost in palm trees and ferns that grow on the trunks of large forest trees, as well as in the active nests of tree-dwelling ants, and the unoccupied tree-nests of termites (2).
	www.arkive.org /species/GES/mammals/Balionycteris_maculata/more_info.html (751 words)

	Animal Info - Golden-capped Fruit Bat
		The golden-capped fruit bat and the large fruit bat (Pteropus vampyrus) historically aggregated in the large colonies characteristic of fruit bats, with numbers in one camp on Mindanao estimated to be near 150,000 as late as the 1920's
		The golden-capped fruit bat is endemic to the
		By the mid-1980's, most mixed colonies of the golden-capped fruit bat and the large fruit bat (Pteropus vampyrus), which previously numbered over 100,000, had disappeared, and those that persisted were down to a few thousand individuals at best, often only a few hundred.
	www.animalinfo.org /species/bat/acerjuba.htm (685 words)

	Fruit Bat Soup
		For all of you who have been waiting patiently to make your fruit bats into fruit bat soup, here's a recipe.
		Fruit bats, or flying foxes, are furry, fruit and nectar eating bats about the size of small rabbits.
		Place the bats in a large kettle and add water to cover, the ginger, onion, and salt.
	www.bertc.com /fruitbat.htm (260 words)

	Rodrigues Fruit Bat
		Rodrigues fruit bats are crepuscular: they fly out to feed at dusk, and return to their roost trees at dawn.
		Like other fruit bats, Rodrigues fruit bats help “plant” the rain forest, by dispersing the seeds of the fruits and plants they eat.
		The Rodrigues fruit bat is found only in the dense rain forests on the island of Rodrigues (part of Mauritius), off the coast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.
	www.wcs.org /5675/aoljump/rodriguesfruitbat (410 words)

	Rodrigues fruit bat
		They are one of the 60 largest bats in the world which are referred to as flying foxes.
		These bats are crepuscular, meaning they active at sunset and sunrise.
		They crush the fruit in their mouths by pressing their tongues against its hard, ridged upper palate.
	www.akronzoo.org /learn/Rodrigues.asp (500 words)

	Amazing Rainforest Animals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Amazing Rainforest Animals collection of rainforest animal pictures, wingsparks, and resource links is a site developed by EDAF 4507 and EDAF 5880 classes at the College of Education at Louisiana State University during the spring of 1998.
		The fruit bat is often called the flying fox.
		Bats are largely responsible for the reforestation of the rain forest.
	asterix.ednet.lsu.edu /~edtech/rainfor/fruit/fruitbat.htm (68 words)

	fruit bat
		Bats - Bats may be the most misunderstood animals in the United States.
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		QLD: Fruit growers warned to beware of sick or wounded bats
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/sci/A0819793.html (232 words)

	WELCOME TO THE FRUIT BAT WORLD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		They are fruit bats.Their head-body length is about 20cm and wingspan is almost 90cm.
		The name of "fruit bat" means that they mainly live on fruit.
		Japanese bat artSatumakiriko(Cut glass) I think it is the most beautiful bat art.
	www2r.biglobe.ne.jp /~fruitbat/english.htm (98 words)

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