The inside story: We used to have a colony of up to 36 Epauletted Fruit Bats in our garden every summer. They arrive every year in spring, raise their offspring and leave late autum. This year only 7 returned quiet late in November (including 4 mothers with babies). They used to live always in the same palm tree (King Palm) in our garden. Don't know what happend, but in the morning on 18th December15 they didn't come back from their night outing. I still see them flying around at night time, but couldn't find them during the day. In between a single mother with baby visits the king palm for a day and on 31.12.15 this mother with baby slept during the day in a different palm (also king palm) close to our pool. After the day of rest she also disappeared again and this year up till know I haven't spotted them in our garden and only see them flying around our house at night.