Common Pygmy Fruit Bat

Common Pygmy Fruit BatThe Common Pygmy Fruit Bat is a small, dark, tailless fruit bat. Records come from highlands on Java, Bali and Lombok, and from hill and montane forests in Peninsular Malaysia.What does it look like?The genus Aethalops is described as small, dark and tailless, with a forearm length of about 50 mm; its members are fruit bats.How does it live?The Common Pygmy Fruit Bat is a small, dark, tailless fruit bat. Records come from highlands on Java, Bali and Lombok, and from hill and montane forests in Peninsular Malaysia.Seven bats were collected in mixed evergreen rainforest on Bali at about 1,500–1,600 m. In Peninsular Malaysia, the species is recorded in hill and montane forests above 1,000 m.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.