Straw-coloured fruit bat

Eidolon helvum · Pteropodidae

The straw-coloured fruit bat is a large fruit bat that is the most widely distributed of all the African megabats. It is quite common throughout its area ranging from the southwestern Arabian Peninsula, across forest and savanna zones of sub-Saharan Africa. It is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List due to a decreasing population trend.

Where the Straw-coloured fruit bat lives

Recorded in Benin, Ghana, Cameroon, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Dem. Rep. Congo, Nigeria, Tanzania, Côte d'Ivoire, Eq. Guinea, Uganda, Zambia, Kenya and Senegal (Africa).

Most records fall in Atakora, Bioko Norte, Kigali City, Tapoa, Donga and Western.

See the Straw-coloured fruit bat’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Near threatened (NT). Not at risk yet, but could be soon. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 3,614 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.