Straw-coloured Fruit Bat
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Order: Chiroptera
Family: Pteropodidae

[Photo] Straw-coloured Fruit Bat (Eidolon helvum), Zoological Garden Berlin, Germany. Date 2006-04-21. Author Fritz Geller-Grimm (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dysmachus).

The Straw-coloured Fruit Bat (Eidolon helvum) is a species of bat in the Pteropodidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tom?? and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Somalia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, and moist savanna.

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