Lyle's flying fox is a Southeast Asian bat that roosts in large groups high in trees by day and flies out at night to find fruit and other foods.
It has large eyes, a pointed muzzle and small upright ears. The body is dark brown to nearly black, while the neck and shoulders can be lighter brown, golden or orange.
In Kandal Province, Cambodia, researchers tracked 14 Lyle’s flying foxes for about one month. All were captured at the same roost, and their movements showed where they travelled at night and which areas they used to forage. The 2016 study collected 13,643 valid location records.
Residential areas contained 53.7% of the recorded foraging locations, while plantations contained 26.6%. The bats’ average maximum nightly distance was 28.3 km, and six visited another roost during the study. Every tracked bat returned to at least one foraging site on multiple nights, showing repeated use of particular places.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
In a Cambodian tracking study, 53.7% of Lyle’s flying fox foraging locations were residential and 26.6% were plantations.