Gambian Epauletted Fruit Bats hanging from the ceiling of our lodge

These fruit bats are pretty common and often hang out in hotels and lodges near the coast - we stayed in one hotel where they flew in every evening to drink from the swimming pool as they flew by. Bats are usually VERY challenging to identify, but these are fairly unique.

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Patomarazul

Lion

Awesome! Posted 5 years ago
1. Barry
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks - note the white spots below the ears, I always thought that those were the eyes until I looked closer at the pictures. Posted 5 years ago
2. 1. Patomarazul
    
    Lion
    
    Haha! they are like the earlobes, aren't they..these bats in fact have pretty eyes..just a bit more upfront :-) Posted 5 years ago

Flown Kimmerling

Lion

Really neat! Posted 4 years ago

The Gambian epauletted fruit bat

The Gambian epauletted fruit bat is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae.

The species is known to travel in packs and are also known to be tropical. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, and Togo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, and moist.. more

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Similar species: Bats

Species identified by Barry