Near ThreatenedAfrican Straw-coloured Fruit-bat
Eidolon helvum
One of the 29 bats on WAnimals
Mammals · Chiroptera · Pteropodidae
Rousettus aegyptiacus
The species is abundant and widely distributed; it faces no significant short-term risk.
It is one of the few fruit bats able to echolocate, using tongue clicks rather than the laryngeal system of other bats, combining it with excellent night vision.
Weight
80 g – 170 g
Size
13 cm – 17 cm
Life expectancy
22 years
Diet
Frugivore
Feeds mainly on fruit.
Activity
Nocturnal
Active mainly at night.
Social structure
Colony
Lives in large concentrations, often for breeding reasons.
Sources consulted: Animal Diversity Web · Animalia.bio · BioDB · zoo-ekzo.ru · Lincoln Park Zoo · The Animal Facts · Wikipedia (Egyptian fruit bat) · Grokipedia
Best time: All year round, at dusk, in the eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East and Africa; by day it hangs in caves and tombs, in very noisy colonies.
Parks and dive sites where this species has been documented — showing 10 of 18.
Other species in the catalogue with the most in common with Egyptian Rousette — same habitat, park, country, tags or family.
Based on what we already know about egyptian rousette.
The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.
