Rodrigues Fruit Bat
Pteropus rodricensis
Classification
- Kingdom Anamalia - There are 9-10 million creatures on earth in this class
- Kingdom Mammalia- there are 5000 creatures in this class placed into 26 orders
- Order Chiroptera - bats make up 20% of earths creatures
- Order Cingulta - This group currently is made up of armadillos, 2 toed-sloths,2 toed-sloths, and anteaters
- Phylum Chordata - singe, dorsal, hollow nerve cord
- Class Sarcopterygii - lobe finned fishes and terrestrial vertebrates
- Subphylum Vertabrata - paired kidneys that allow them to drain waste from them
- Family Pteropodidae - animals in this class are known as the Flying Foxes
Rodriguez fruit bat in habitat
This is the Rodriguez Fruit Bat in its Habitat
Were It Lives
The Rodriguez Fruit Bat lives in Africa as you can see
Rodriguez Fruit Bat Roost
this is what they do at night when they sleep and when they go hunting for fruit
Addaptations and General Description
Physical and Behavoral Addaptations
Behavioral
1. This animal hunts in something called a Roost which is a large group of bats and they do this to find food faster
2. They eat only fruits, leaves, wood, bark, and stems,etc
Physical
1. This animal has a gold reddish brown head then rest of body is completely black
2. This animal hunts with sight and smell not echolocation
General Description
1. this animal weighs up to 3 1/2 lb
2. head and body up to 16 inches
3. Wingspan 1-6 1/2 ft
References
Burton, M. (2002). Fruit bat. In International wildlife encyclopedia (3rd ed.,
pp. 906-909). New York, NY: Marshall Cavendish.
http://library.sandiegozoo.org/factsheets/rodriques_fruit_bat/rodriques_fruit_bat.html