Sites

Fruit Bat - English
URL: http://www.animalsoftherainforest.com/fruitbat.htm

Photos, taxonomy, habitat, diet.

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Family Pteropodidae - Japanese
URL: http://1kai.dokkyomed.ac.jp/mammal/jp/family/pteropodidae.html

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Fruit Bats at the Fort Worth Zoo - English
URL: http://www.whozoo.org/students/dansch/fruitbat.htm

Bats have inhabited the Earth for about the last 50 million years. The earliest fossils of the species found bare a remarkable resemblance to the bats of today. The ancestry of bats is thought to be similar to that of primates.

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Old World Fruit Bat - English
URL: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Andes/6859/oldworldbat.html

Old World fruit bat describes about 200 species from the suborder Megachiroptera which is under the family Pteropodidae. They are 17-40.6 cm (7-16 inches) long and have a wingspan roughly 1.7 meters (5.6 feet) long.

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Old World Fruit Bats - English
URL: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walker/chiroptera/chiroptera.pteropodidae.html

This family of 42 living genera and 173 species is found in the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World, east to Australia and the Caroline and Cook islands. There are two living subfamilies: Pteropodinae, for most of the genera; and Macroglossinae, for the genera Eonycteris, Megaloglossus, Macroglossus, Syconycteris, Melonycteris, and Notopteris (Koopman and Jones 1970).

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