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Madagascan flying fox
Order : Chiroptera
Family : Pteropodidae
Subfamily : Pteropodinae
Species : Pteropus rufus
The Madagascan flying fox, madagascar flying-fox, madagascar fruit bat is listed as Vulnerable (VU), considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Namings for the Madagascan flying fox
A Madagascan flying fox group is called a 'flock'.Countries
Madagascar
Facts about the Madagascan flying fox
The island’s largest bat - Pteropus rufus - is being eaten faster than it breeds. (Full text)
Also the large Malagasy Flying Fox (Pteropus rufus) is fascinating - imagine a bat with a wing span of more than one meter! (Full text)
So far, Pteropus rufus is probably the best studied of Madagascar's fruit bat because of being the focus of PhD research studies part-funded by Lubee Bat Conservancy (Long 2002, MacKinnon et al. (Full text)
1. Madagascan -- (a native or inhabitant of Madagascar)Madagascan
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