Livingstone's fruit bat
pteropus livingstonii latin

Livingstone's fruit bats roost in trees, in groups of six to 160 individuals, with up to eight trees per site.

Livingstone's fruit bats are mostly black in colour, with a scattering of golden or tawny hairs over the rump, belly, and flanks.

The diet of Livingstone's fruit bats consists of fruit, pollen, nectar, seeds, and leaves.

Livingstone's Fruit Bat: a very large endemic daytime bat, which eats fruit.

Livingstone's fruit bat, although plentiful when discovered by explorer David Livingstone in 1863, has been reduced to a population of about 120, entirely on Anjouan.

Livingstone's fruit bat (Pteropus livingstonii), also called the Comoro flying fox, is a megabat in the genus Pteropus.

Livingstone's fruit bat is found only on the islands of Anjouan and Mohéli, within the Comoros group between Africa and northern Madagascar.

The cave holds three species of bat: Rodrigues fruit bat, Livingstone's fruit bat and Seba's short-tailed bat.

The black-bearded flying fox is believed to be one of the closest relatives of Livingstone's fruit bats, but experts differ as to whether or not these species belong to the same species group.

Cameras have been installed in the meerkat enclosure, as well as in those of the Telfair's skinks, the Livingstone's fruit bats and in the Kirindy Forest, the home of a rare and colourful bird collection.

Blackwell questions the importance of popular endangered species, such as the giant panda, compared to lesser known keystone species such as the Livingstone's fruit bat: "What it lacks in cuteness it makes up for in its contribution to the wider ecosystem."

As a result, among species now on view at Bristol which are rare or absent in UK zoos are aye aye (of which they have bred two so far, with a juvenile on show), Livingstone's Fruit Bat, and a successful breeding group of Western Lowland Gorillas.

Elsewhere in the world the Trust is working to save the Mallorcan midwife toad in Spain, the Western Lowland Gorilla in Cameroon, the Sumatran Orangutan in Sumatra, and Livingstone's Fruit Bat (Pteropus livingstonii) in the Comoros Islands.

Elsewhere in the world the Trust is working to save the Mallorcan midwife toad in Spain, the Western Lowland Gorilla in Cameroon, the Sumatran Orangutan in Sumatra, and Livingstone's Fruit Bat (Pteropus livingstonii) in the Comoros Islands.