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Straw-coloured fruit bat

Eidolon helvum

Photo by dotun55
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Description:

Often comes at night to puncture the ripe paw-paws. And by morning, there's a lot of orange-red droppings on the floor and car windshield : (
Threw a log to scare it away after taking this photograph that night.

Species ID Suggestions

Straw-coloured fruit bat

Eidolon helvum

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Bat

Megachiroptera
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Please consider adding this to the Bats of Africa mission http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/24647059

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PublishedJanuary 22, 2012

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