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Giant Golden-crowned Flying Fox
Acerodon jubatus
Acerodon jubatus of the Philippines is one of the largest bats in the world, with a wingspan that can reach roughly 1.7 m and a body weighing over a kilogram, and it is a fruit eater with a specific job: it plants forests. Its diet is dominated by figs, and it flies long distanc…
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- Despite their enormous size and vampire-like appearance, Giant Golden-crowned Flying Foxes feed only on fruit and never consume blood.
- It is often billed as "the world's largest bat," and by wingspan it is in genuine contention with the large flying fox, but by body mass the two are close and neither wins outright. Because it does not echolocate, it is silent in flight, and the way to find a colony is to listen for the squabbling and smell the roost rather than to hear the bats fly. It roosts in the highest branches of the tallest trees it can find, which means it is one of the first species to vanish when a forest is selectively logged for large timber. Some individuals have been tracked flying tens of kilometres in a single night between roost and a fruiting tree.
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