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A bat that looks like someone glued wings to a small judgmental dog.
means A fox bat (also called a flying fox) is a large fruit-eating megabat with a long, fox-like snout and big eyes, found across tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia.
from A plain English compound: 'fox' (Old English 'fox') plus 'bat,' the name earned by the creature's elongated, dog-like muzzle and amber eyes — it simply looks like a fox that took up flying. The synonym 'flying fox' makes the same observation; both names date to the era when European naturalists encountered these animals in the tropics and reached, sensibly, for the nearest familiar face.
- wingspan
- Can stretch nearly five feet across
- true name
- Flying foxes are megabats, the giants of batdom
- vision
- They navigate by sight, not echolocation
- diet
- Pure fruit, nectar, and flowers, no blood
- ecology
- Pollinate and reseed entire rainforests while flying