Predation

Straw-colored fruit bat (Eidolon helvum)

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Straw-colored fruit bat (Eidolon helvum)

Even in cities like Abidjan in Ivory Coast, straw-colored fruit bats (Eidolon helvum) are intensely hunted by teenage boys who earn a good income selling them for people to eat. Though over-hunting poses a threat to these bats' survival, there is no evidence that the people who eat them contract diseases as a result. This casts serious doubt on claims that bats are dangerous sources of disease.

1982 Abidjan Africa Ivory Coast Lamto Lamto research field station Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation Pteropodidae bat bat conservation conservation hunters market predation

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Predation