Animalz

Megaerops

  • Ratanaworabhan's Fruit Bat Megaerops niphanae
    Ratanaworabhan's Fruit Bat
    Photo: Ian Dugdale · (c) Ian Dugdale, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY 4.0

    A survey conducted in August 2024 recorded this small fruit bat in Xuan Nha Nature Reserve in northwestern Vietnam. All four captured individuals were female, and two were lactating.

  • White-collared Fruit Bat Megaerops albicollis

    This fruit bat is recorded from the Malay Peninsula, central Sumatra, and Borneo. HMW lists primary lowland dipterocarp forest below about 110 m as its habitat.

  • Temminck's Tailless Fruit Bat Megaerops ecaudatus

    This fruit bat has no tail and tubular nostrils. Records from Peninsular Malaysia are mainly from relatively undisturbed forest.

  • Javan Tailless Fruit Bat Megaerops kusnotoi

    This fruit bat has no tail, a gray-brown back, and paler underparts. It is thought to roost among foliage, but its ecology remains poorly known.

  • Ratanaworabhan's Fruit Bat Megaerops niphanae
    Ratanaworabhan's Fruit Bat
    Photo: Ian Dugdale · (c) Ian Dugdale, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY 4.0

    A survey conducted in August 2024 recorded this small fruit bat in Xuan Nha Nature Reserve in northwestern Vietnam. All four captured individuals were female, and two were lactating.