Henry Doorly Zoo 2010 - Free-ranging Giant Indian Fruit Bats in Lied Jungle

According to signage, bats they keep in Kingdom of the Night are bulldog bats, Ruwenzori long-hair fruit bats, spear-nosed bats, Egyptian fruit bats, little golden-manteled fruit bat, giant Indian fruit bat, and short-tailed fruit bat, if that helps at all.

Also, here is another picture taken from inside the cave:

@KCZooFan, your photo shows egyptian fruit bats.

So thats probably what was in Baldur's photo, unless they have more than one species of bat flying in the Jungle

Definitely a Rousettus species rather than a Pteropus. Could be aegypticus or lanosus, but I'd lean towards aegyptiacus.

There are two species of fruit bats in the Lied Jungle, Indian fruit bats, Pteropus giganteus and the smaller Egyptian fruit bat Rousettus aegypticus. The Pteropus bats are fewer in number, two of which usually roost in the overhang over the feeding cage. The Rosettus bats can be heard and seen from above in a niche over the stairs near the feeding cage.

I have never seen these in the Lied Jungle.

Hang around at about four thirty in the evening, which is when they feed them, and you will see some bats something good! It is amazing!

The free ranging bats is one of the coolest aspects of the Lied Jungle

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I finally saw these bats on my visit yesterday.