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MEGABATS, FLYING FOXES or FRUIT BATS (Pteropus) Megabats constitute the suborder Megachiroptera, family Pteropodidae of the order Chiroptera (bats). They are also called fruit bats, old world fruit bats, or flying foxes. Most fruit bats have large eyes, allowing them to orient visually in the twilight of dusk and inside caves and forests. Their sense of smell is excellent. In contrast to the microbats, the fruit bats do not, as a rule, use echolocation (with one exception, the Egyptian fruit bat Rousettus egyptiacus, which uses high-pitched clicks to navigate in caves).  Fruit bats are frugivorous or nectarivorous, i.e., they eat fruits or lick nectar from flowers. Often the fruits are crushed and only the juices consumed. The teeth are adapted to bite through hard fruit skins. Large fruit bats must land in order to eat fruit , while the smaller species are able to hover with flapping wings in front of a flower or fruit. Fact Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteropodidae Other Photos you might like: Baby Flying Foxes Mexican Free Tail Bats Vampire Bat Bat at Sunset gothiccharmschool: A bundle of bats!

MEGABATS, FLYING FOXES or FRUIT BATS (Pteropus)

Megabats constitute the suborder Megachiroptera, family Pteropodidae of the order Chiroptera (bats). They are also called fruit bats, old world fruit bats, or flying foxes.

Most fruit bats have large eyes, allowing them to orient visually in the twilight of dusk and inside caves and forests.

Their sense of smell is excellent. In contrast to the microbats, the fruit bats do not, as a rule, use echolocation (with one exception, the Egyptian fruit bat Rousettus egyptiacus, which uses high-pitched clicks to navigate in caves).

 Fruit bats are frugivorous or nectarivorous, i.e., they eat fruits or lick nectar from flowers. Often the fruits are crushed and only the juices consumed. The teeth are adapted to bite through hard fruit skins. Large fruit bats must land in order to eat fruit , while the smaller species are able to hover with flapping wings in front of a flower or fruit.

Fact Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteropodidae

Other Photos you might like:

Baby Flying Foxes

Mexican Free Tail Bats

Vampire Bat

Bat at Sunset

gothiccharmschool:

A bundle of bats!

(Source: bloodfireandsong)

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