Sulawesi Naked-backed Fruit Bat

Sulawesi Naked-backed Fruit BatThis fruit bat has bare skin across its back and tail, with black wing membranes. A 2024 survey in Bualemo, Central Sulawesi, found it only in secondary forest there.What does it look like?Specimens identified as this species in the Dumoga market survey had greenish-yellow body fur, black wing membranes, and bare backs and tails.How does it live?This fruit bat has bare skin across its back and tail, with black wing membranes. A 2024 survey in Bualemo, Central Sulawesi, found it only in secondary forest there.In Bualemo, Central Sulawesi, a survey in June and July 2024 recorded this bat only in secondary forest. That result applies to the study site and period.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.