Animals - Nocturnal Trail
| African straw-colored fruit bat |
| Eidolon helvum |
| Range: |
Africa |
| Habitat: |
Tropical forests, coastal forests, arid regions |
| Diet: |
Fruit juices, fruit, soft wood |
| Fun Facts: |
- 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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