FRUIT BATSBy Sara Persson

Why did I Pick the Fruit Bat?

• I picked the Fruit Bat because they are very neat animals, and very close to becoming extinct.

How Does the Fruit Bat Benefit the Environment?

• Fruit Bats consume pollen with their tongues, which is important to many plants’ lifecycle.

• They are also one of the most important predators of night-flying insects.

What is Being Done to Save the Bats?

• In the 1990s, Fauna & Flora International (FFI) took first action to save Fruit Bats using conservation, setting up forest reserves, and reducing threat from hunting.

• Within the past 20 years, it’s numbers have increased at an amazing 22,000.

What Needs to be Done to Further Increase Their

Population?• As long as they resume conserving, and all of the other things they have so far accomplished, the

Fruit Bats should eventually no longer be endangered.

How Did the Fruit Bat Become Endangered?

• Fruit Bats were hunted a lot, and in some places, even eaten.

• Over-hunting caused the Fruit Bat to be on the verge of extinction.

General Information About Fruit Bats

• The Fruit Bat is one of the only bats that don’t echolocate.

• Fruit bats, unlike most other bat species, don’t have very good vision; they rely on their nose.

• Some of the larger fruit bats can eat a fruit whole.• Fruit Bats are nocturnal.• Fruit Bats are not related to rodents, although they

do often resemble them. Fruit Bats have their own scientific group name, which is Greek, and it means “hand-wing.”

Pictures!

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