MAMMALS OF THE PACIFIC WOELD 



Interfemoral 

 Membrane 



Tail 



Digit III 

 Fig. 20 — Typical Bat, showing parts of flying mechanism 



There are two major divisions of the Bat Order — the usually 

 large fruit bats and the insectivorous bats, almost all of small 

 size. 



Fruit Bats. Suborder Megachiroptera. 

 Family Pteropodid^ 



Although some members of this family are small, with a body 

 about the size of a mouse and the wing-spread less than a foot, 

 most fruit bats are large, the largest having the head and body 

 about a foot in length and the wing-spread as much as five feet. 

 The face is usually fox-like, but in a few species has a short, 

 rounded profile. The tail is often absent, and when present is 

 usually short. The cheek-teeth are generally blunt-crowned; 

 even when the cusps are sharp they do not form the W-pattern 

 of insectivorous bats. Fruit bats are an Old World tropical 



