Straw-colored Fruit Bat
Eidolon helvum
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 2,422
- Most observed in
- 🇧🇯 Benin
- Conservation
- Near Threatened
Description
The straw-coloured fruit bat (Eidolon helvum) is a large fruit bat that is the most widely distributed of all the African megabats. It is quite common throughout its area ranging from the southwestern Arabian Peninsula, across forest and savanna zones of sub-Saharan Africa. It is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List due to a decreasing population trend.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Straw-coloured fruit bat”.