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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 and Madagascar. They have recently been classified as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List due to a decreasing population trend. Straw-coloured fruit bats travel in massive colonies of at least 100,000 bats...

References ³

Dallimer, M., King, T., Cope, D., Jiana, M.B., 2006. Estimation of population density of Eidolon helvum on the island of Príncipe, Gulf of Guinea. Mammalia 70, 48-51.
Juste B., J., Ibáñez, C., Machordom, A., 2000. Morphological and allozyme variation of Eidolon helvum (Mammalia: Megachiroptera) in the islands of the Gulf of Guinea. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 71, 359-378.

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