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Tips on how to look after young bats
Following our early post on the juvenile Common Fruit Bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) that fell from its roost and our appeal for information of how to care for it LINK, Dr Vilma D’Rozario of Cicada Tree...
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Bats roosting in my porch: 24. A bag of red chillies
So far, all attempts at discouraging Common Fruit Bats (Cynopterus brachyotis) from roosting in my porch failed. I tried spotlights and hung CDs LINK 1 and LINK 2 but without success. One outcome of...
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Bats roosting in my porch: 6. Morphology of the Common Fruit Bat
The Common Fruit Bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) is a mammal and has the capacity of true flight – unlike flying squirrels and flying lemurs that actually are gliders. Its face is dog-like (above) Like...
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Bats roosting in my porch: 7. Arrival of the Common Fruit Bats
A few years ago a family of Common Fruit Bats (Cynopterus brachyotis) consisting of an alpha male and his harem of females roosted in my porch LINK. But then the mess they left on the floor below left...
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Bats in my porch: 8. Female with young
By late July 2014 a lone adult female Common Fruit Bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) with a baby clinging to her arrived one morning to roost in the porch (above). The female is recognised by her...
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Bats roosting in my porch: 9. Mating
It was on the evening of 2nd August 2014 that the mating of the Common Fruit Bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) was documented. At around1800 hours there was a lone bat roosting in the porch (above). This...
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Bats in my porch: 10. The alpha male
The above male Common Fruit Bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) was photographed at 2240 hours on 30th July 2014. He was one among the small colony that arrived in the porch at around 1800h to roost,...
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Bats roosting in my porch: 25. The bats have more or less gone
It has been more than a year since I hung a bag of red chillies in my porch to discourage Common Fruit Bats (Cynopterus brachyotis) from roosting. Initially the bats came but left immediately. However,...
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BABY BAT SUCKLING & TEAT TRANSFER
“One morning in early May 2016, I was admiring a cosy colony of Common Fruit Bats (Cynopterus brachyotis) and observing their dedicated maternal care (above). “One of the mothers had a well-grown baby...
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Bat proofing my house porch
Following the success of discouraging the Common Fruit Bats (Cynopterus brachyotis) from roosting by hanging a bag of fresh red chillies nearby: HERE and HERE, Dr Jean Ho decided to do the same in her...
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Common Fruit Bat roosting in a tree
(video grab) This juvenile Common Fruit Bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) arrived one morning to roost under my porch but was discouraged from doing so by a bag of dried red chillies (Capsicum annuum) LINK....
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Whiskered Myotis bat roosting inside rolled up leaf of banana plant
This Whiskered Myotis (Myotis muricola) bat (above) was found roosting inside the central rolled up leaf of my banana plant (Musa ‘Pisang Raja’) yesterday afternoon. The young banana plant was barely...
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Return of the Whiskered myotis
An earlier post documented a Whiskered Myotis Bat (Myotis muricola) roosting inside the rolled-up central leaf of my banana plant (Musa “Pisang Raja”). Since then I have been keeping an eye of newly...
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Common Fruit Bat feeding on longan
Joe Tham‘s image of a bat targeting the fruits of Longan (Dimocarpus longan) adds to the former’s food list. Wildlife consultant Subaraj Rajathurai has this to say: “Based on the appearance and...
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Bats roosting in my porch: 24. A bag of red chillies
So far, all attempts at discouraging Common Fruit Bats (Cynopterus brachyotis) from roosting in my porch failed. I tried spotlights and hung CDs LINK 1 and LINK 2 but without success. One outcome of...
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Bats roosting in my porch: 25. The bats have more or less gone
It has been more than a year since I hung a bag of red chillies in my porch to discourage Common Fruit Bats (Cynopterus brachyotis) from roosting. Initially the bats came but left immediately. However,...
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BABY BAT SUCKLING & TEAT TRANSFER
“One morning in early May 2016, I was admiring a cosy colony of Common Fruit Bats (Cynopterus brachyotis) and observing their dedicated maternal care (above). “One of the mothers had a well-grown baby...
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Bat proofing my house porch
Following the success of discouraging the Common Fruit Bats (Cynopterus brachyotis) from roosting by hanging a bag of fresh red chillies nearby: HERE and HERE, Dr Jean Ho decided to do the same in her...
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Common Fruit Bat roosting in a tree
(video grab) This juvenile Common Fruit Bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) arrived one morning to roost under my porch but was discouraged from doing so by a bag of dried red chillies (Capsicum annuum) LINK....
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Whiskered Myotis bat roosting inside rolled up leaf of banana plant
This Whiskered Myotis (Myotis muricola) bat (above) was found roosting inside the central rolled up leaf of my banana plant (Musa ‘Pisang Raja’) yesterday afternoon. The young banana plant was barely...
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