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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] There are at least 60 extant species in the genus.
With their giant wingspans, flying foxes are the world's biggest bats. Australia's black flying foxes are a prime example, with wingspans up to six feet (two...
Flying foxes are the largest bats, with a wingspan of up to 1.5 metres, and eat fruit. They are mostly nocturnal and use sight rather than echolocation to navigate. Learn more about their distribution, classification, and conservation status.
Flying Fox. By. Animals Network Team. Flying foxes are some of the largest bat species in the world, and the large flying fox species has the longest wingspan of any bat. These megabats are their own taxonomical genus, and there are at least 60 known species alive today.
The large flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus, formerly Pteropus giganteus), also known as the greater flying fox, Malayan flying fox, Malaysian flying fox, large fruit bat, kalang, or kalong, is a southeast Asian species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae.
Grey-headed flying foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) fly through the suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Megabats are widely distributed in the tropics of the Old World , occurring throughout Africa, Asia, Australia, and throughout the islands of the Indian Ocean and Oceania . [18]
Members of Pteropodidae are known colloquially as the flying foxes, or Old World fruit bats. The family is composed of 41 genera and about 170 species. The most species-rich genus in the family is Pteropus with 59 species, many of which are island endemics.
