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African straw-colored fruit bat
Eidolon helvum
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Africa
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Tropical forests, coastal forests, arid regions
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| Diet: |
Fruit juices, fruit, soft wood
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Fun Facts:
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- These tree-dwelling bats typically ingest the juice of fruit, but discard the
fibrous material. They also chew up wood and bark to obtain moisture.
- Bats play an important role in pollination as they frequently visit flowers and fruit and disperse ingested seeds while they fly.
- Straw-colored fruit bats occur in enormous colonies of 100,000 to 1,000,000
individuals of both sexes
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