Fruit Bats Hanging Out at the Houston Zoo

Have you heard the call of our fruit bats? Get a close up look at the bats in our Natural Encounters exhibit. The Straw-colored fruit bat is named for their silky yellow or straw colored pelage. It is the most widely distributed of all the African fruit bats and can be found from the southwestern Arabian Peninsula down through the central African forest and savannah regions. Straw-colored fruit bats are a very social species and roost in large colonies. These bats find food by sight as well as smell. Their diets consist of fruits, leaves, nectar, flowers, and is known to chew into soft wood to obtain moisture. Because they eat fruits and flowers, they play a very important role in pollination and seed dispersal of the forests.

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Pets & Animals

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• fruit bats
• flying foxes
• megabats
• Pteropodidae
• Houston Zoo
• Natural Encounters
• furry flying mammal

[houstonzoo]

Fruit bats are pretty adorable - they almost look like furry chihuahuas with wings!

[Lunazuu]

They´re beutiful and enigmatic mammals, I like these animals.

[xKawaiiGrlx]

OMG sooooo cute it's like a little puppy with wings lol

[AnimalActivist247]

@houstonzoo yea they do! bats are my fave!!!

[Hurrquah]

T.T I want oneeeee.

[ech1998]

hehe!!! i WANT ONE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOO (ect) BAD!!!!! They are so adorible

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[v12jaguarxj12]

Bats are so cool!

[kk00preview]

とてもかわいい！！

[coreysod]

soooo cute