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Angela Berkley,
High School Student
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Fruit bats have small ears.
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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer
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Fruit-eating bats need to see because otherwise they can't find food.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Fruit bats would bore holes through the husks and shells of the coconuts growing on the trees to reach the flesh of the nut, when finished, the rats climbed up the trees and nested in the empty shells.
Fruit bats have benefited most due to urbanisation, where home gardens bear many fruit trees.
What bats eat fruit and flowers?
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Sarah Kennedy,
Fashion Model
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Fruit bats are beige.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Rwenzori fruit bats in a communal group in the Tropical Forest exhibit.
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Tony Howell,
Skateboarder
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Fruit bats find their food by smell as do pollen and nectar feeders.
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Sasha Prevette,
Kindergarten student
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Fruit bats are keystone species because of the important role they play in pollinating flowers and spreading the seeds of trees.
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Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender
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Fruit bats were the natural host of the virus; • The Nipah virus, that caused over one hundred human deaths and devastated piggeries in Malaysia in 1999.
Fruit Bats or Flying Foxes live in noisy groups in one part of the forest and with their wingspan of over 1 metre they are an impressive sight.
Fruit bats, flying foxes, geckos and skinks are common and there are more than 3,000 species of insect.
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