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the order by their purely frugivorous 
habits. The name of flying fox is 
derived from their long fox-like 
faces. The species is found in India, 
Ceylon, Burma, the Malay Archi- 
pelago, Madagascar, the Pacific Is- 
lands, with the exception of the 
Sandwich Group. 
Since fruit bats differ so essenti- 
ally from all others, both in habits 
and structure, they are classified as 
a separate family the Pteropodidae. 
A senseless prejudice exists among 
most white people against their eat- 
ing, deeming them unclean. In real- 
ity their food consists only of fruit 
such as young cocoanuts, mangoes, 
ripe breadfruit and the bud as well 
as the ripe banana. The flying fox 
when cooked is equal to squirrel or 
rabbit and not unlike in its flavour. 
When feeding, it hangs by one 
