The new forest also provides a food source for fruit bats that pollinate durian flowers.
Feeding behaviour and foraging strategies of captive phyllostomid fruit bats: an experimental study.
The wings of the fruit bat are broad and dark gray in color.
The fruit bat may create its own tent to roost in by altering broad leaves.
The fruit bat has greater ecological importance in wet habitats.
However, this species certainly has the ability to travel through the trees as it is often found near fruit bat roosts.
Flying fruit bat faunas of the upper canopy in two paleotropical rain forests.
Differences in home range size and foraging strategies may explain why understorey fruit bat species are more sensitive to fragmentation than canopy ones.
