flying foxes
Large tropical bats
Flying foxes are large fruit-eating bats native to tropical regions of Asia, Australia, and the Pacific islands.
They have fox-like faces with elongated snouts and can have wingspans exceeding five feet.
Unlike most bats, flying foxes navigate by sight rather than echolocation: We watched flying foxes leave their roost at dusk.
- fruit batFruit-eating winged mammal
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- batsFlying nocturnal mammals
- guanoAccumulated bird droppings
- hangSuspend from above
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