Fruit Bats

Fruit Bats live in large colonies, or camps together. They live in Australia and Jamaica and other tropical places. Fruit Bats like to live in dense forests.
There are 4000 mammals on earth and 1/4 of them are bats and they are the only mammals that can fly.

Fruit bats eat fruit and flowers. Fruit bats help spread the seeds of many fruits and vegetables which help them grow.
The scientific name for a bat is chiropetera- “hand-wing”. They call the bats that because the skeleton that supports the wing has long finger bones.
Fruit bats are one of the largest size bats in the world. They are also known as megachiroptera or large hand-wing bats, because they are the largest bats. There wingspan can be up to 6ft.
Fruit bats usually have long muzzles (noses), pointy ears and large eyes. They look like a fox and this is why they are called the flying fox.
National Geographic has a cool video on Fruit Bats see it here.

Fruit bats have good vision and a good sense of smell. This is how they find their way around.

Fruit bats have fur and wings. They are mamals, not birds.
Flying foxes ( a type of fruit bat) Have been recorded flying as fast as 50 kilometers an hour.