A
flying fox is a kind of large bat, not a fox.
It is the largest bat in the world.
Its wingspread may be more than four feet, and its hairy body may be a
foot long and weigh as much as three pounds.
The
flying fox gets its name because its face and long, slender snout look like
that of a fox. Flying foxes are also
called fruit bats. Flying
foxes live in most tropical parts of the world, where fruit is continually
ripening.
They
spend the day nesting in trees, hanging upside down from branches with their
wings folded around their bodies like blankets.
At
sundown the bats leave their roosts and search for an orchard of ripe fruit to
eat. When fruit is hard to find, flying
foxes live by fishing. They skim over
the water and catch fish with their feet.
Unlike
other bats that must depend on the echoes of their own voices to guide them as
they fly about at night, flying foxes and other fruit bats have good eyes, and
guide themselves mostly by sight, just as you and I do.-Dick Rogers
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