
Is it a bird? is it a plane? No, it's a fruit bat!
Flying Foxes are the largest bats in the world, having a wingspan of up to 6 feet! They feed on fruit or nectar and help in the distribution of plants by carrying the fruits with them and spitting the seeds at other places. The nectar-sucking bats pollinate the visited plants. The down side of a colony of fruit bats hanging around is that they smell, are noisy and also can cause damage to trees because of the sheer force of lots of bats ascending at once actually breaking branches off trees.

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