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MAMMAL FACTS |
Description
The Spectacled Flying Fox is a very dark coloured large bat with light brown fur around the eyes like spectacles.
Other Names
Spectacled Fruit-bat
Size
Head and body length 23cm
Habitat
Roosts in tall trees in swamps and rainforests. Colonies may have thousands of bats. The bats leave the colony at dusk to feed at night.
Food
blossoms of rainforest trees. Also feeds on cultivated plants such as mangoes. Bats can drink on the wing by skimming low over the water.
Breeding
A single young is born between October and early December.
Range
tropical east cost of Queensland
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Mammalia | | Order: | Chiroptera | | Family: | Pteropodidae | | Genus: | Pteropus | | Species: | conspillatus | | Common Name: | Spectacled Flying-fox |
Relatives in same Genus
Black Flying-fox (P. alecto)
Grey-headed Flying-fox (P. poliocephalus)
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