Fruit Bat
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Like the birds, many of the bat species in Madagascar are endemic in spite of their mobility as flying animals. Although the details of the taxonomy and distribution of Malagasy bats are not well studied, at least half of the approximately 29 species are found nowhere else.Both insectivorous bats and fruit bats roost in the caves at Ankarana. This Madagascar Straw-colored Fruit Bat is an endemic species with a wingspan of over two feet. Its calls are quite loud when it is disturbed. A surprising variety of invertebrate life depends on the energy supply brought into the caves by bats and deposited as guano.
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Contents:
1.Ankarana Special Reserve
·Ankarana Plateau
·Topographic map
·Dave and big tree
·Lepilemur in tree
·Lepilemur at night
·British Camp
·Crowned Lemur in a tree
·Male Crowned Lemur
·Crowned Lemur
call
·Female Crowned Lemur and baby
·Cicada nymphal shell
·Large cicada
·Cicada calls
·Many noisy cicadas
·Large Day Gecko
·Green Day Gecko
·Copper colored lizard
·Palm at sunset
·Ankarana cave
·Pottery in cave
·Fruit Bat
·Bat call
·Cave tunnel crossing canyon
·Canyon at cave crossing
·Isolated forest from cave exit
·Parrot call
·Tsingy and lake
·Tsingy and Pandanus
·Tsingy rock
·Tsingy percussion
·Harpoon Plant
·Brown chameleon
2.Ampijoroa Forestry Station
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