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Flying Fox Bat Aanjan & Harish

Characteristics of the bat: The Giant Flying Fox Bat is about seventy inches long. This bat's wingspan is four to eight feet. The Flying Fox is reddish brown on it's head with a dark muzzle,the neck and shoulders are orange and yellow,the back is brown and it has a yellowish brown tummy. It weighs twenty to twenty-two ounces(two pounds). This huge bat's name comes from the fox because the bat has a fox like head.

Habitat: The Giant Flying Fox Bat lives in India. It lives in tropical and subtropical foests. Food: The Giant Flying Fox Bat preferes pollen and necter and fruit juice.

Other interesting facts: Sixty of the larger fruit bats make up the Giant Flying Fox Bat. This bat's baby can fly when two moths old. A single young Giant Flying Fox Bat clings to its mother for about two months until full size. The Giant Flying Fox Bat spends most of the morning chattering. People have been eating Giant Flying Fox Bats for sixty-eight years. The Giant Flying Fox Bat prefers roosting on branches of trees. On very hot days the Giant Flying Fox Bat keeps cool by fanning itself with its wings. This giant bat has one favorite feeding place and when that place is out of food the leader of the pack finds another feeding place.The Giant Flying Fox Bat has a keen sense of smell and eye sight. When a Giant Flying Fox Bat is two months old it is almost the size of a full grown of a Giant Flying Fox Bat.