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Rodrigues fruit bat

Pteropus rodricensis

Description:

fruit bat

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3 Comments

Aaron_G
Aaron_G 11 years ago

DAK = Disney's Animal Kingdom, where this spotting took place. :-)

veneta.tashev
veneta.tashev 11 years ago

Aaron, what is DAK?

Aaron_G
Aaron_G 11 years ago

DAK displays 2 fruit bats and I'm not sure which species you have here.

You might research these to see if you can differentiate: Malayan flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus) and the Rodrigues fruit bat (Pteropus rodricensis).

NoSutt
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NoSutt

Orlando, Florida, USA

Spotted on Jul 8, 2009
Submitted on Jul 25, 2012

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