The bat in question is not the animal we are familiar with, but the immensely larger fruit bat, the flesh of which is readily eaten.
They live in caves, and not as the large fruit bats of India, which repose head downwards, hanging from trees in great colonies.
Fruit bat niche dynamics: their role in maintaining tropical forest diversity.
Hence, habitat heterogeneity may be a key factor promoting fruit bat species diversity in old-growth palaeotropical forests.
Bulmer's fruit bat is a cave-dweller that occurs in mid-montane forests.
We hypothesise that these long flights over 'foodless' areas would not be compatible with the foraging strategy of certain fruit bats.
Old world fruit bats can be long-distance seed dispersers through extended retention of viable seeds in the gut.
Jamaican fruit bats are most active at midnight; following that, activity begins to die down.
