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Bat Week 2020: Pollinating Bats of Peninsular Malaysia

Did you know that Peninsular Malaysia is home to at least 6 different bat species that are known to pollinate flowers???

A lot of people think of bats as using echolocation instead of eyesight to catch insect prey for food. However, in Malaysia we have fruit bats (Family Pteropodidae), who don’t echolocate but are equipped with large eyes and a keen sense of smell to home in on yummy fruits and nectar.

Many of our tropical plants such as durian (Durio zibethinus), petai (Parkia speciosa), wild bananas (Musa spp.), perepat (Sonneratia alba) and berembang (Sonneratia caseolaris) actually depend on fruit/nectar bats for successful pollination and fruit production!

Artistic impressions by Vietnamese artist Dao Van Hoang

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This poster will also be included in our GIVEAWAY. If you’re in Malaysia and you’ve remembered to follow us on social media, sharing this post with the correct 3 hashtags + tagging 3 friends gains you another entry!

October 30, 2020October 30, 2020 by Rimba Categories: Home, Project UpdatesTags: bat conservation, Bat Week 2020, bats, Cave Nectar Bat, Common Rousette, Eonycteris spelaea, flying fox, fruit bat, Hill Long-tongued Fruit Bat, Island Flying Fox, Large Flying Fox, Lesser Long-tongued Fruit Bat, Macroglossus minimus, Macroglossus sobrinus, nectar bat, Peninsular Malaysia, pollination, pollinators, Project Pteropus, Pteropodidae, Pteropus hypomelanus, Pteropus vampyrus, Rousettus amplexicaudatus, tropical ecology

Fruit Bat outreach materials by Project Pteropus

Bats are amazing beneficial animals that are highly misunderstood and threatened due to prejudice and ignorance. They don’t get enough love, and we need to help them now, more than ever! Project Pteropus has produced outreach materials for public education and awareness on Malaysian and Southeast Asian fruit bat conservation. These are available as soft copies for you to download and/or share online (click on the images) for non-profit educational purposes – all we ask is that you use them in their original forms that we have created, and please do not make any additions or alterations.

The posters, brochures, fact sheets and short documentary are more relevant to Malaysia (although they do feature two regionally common and widely distributed flying fox species), but the animated video ‘The Secret Life of Durian Trees’, the Green Humour infographics on bats as durian pollinators, and the children’s card game are widely applicable to all Southeast Asian countries, and can therefore be used across the region. More outreach materials (including more pteropodid species) are in the works, so watch this space!

If you would like to obtain hi-res copies of these files for mass printing and distribution, please contact Hana. If anyone would like to help provide the current legal and management information relevant to Sabah, please do get in touch and let us know!

Posters

Fact Sheets

Brochures (print and fold)

Comics/Infographics

Videos

Children’s Card Game

FAQ on bats and COVID-19 Continue reading →

April 28, 2020April 30, 2020 by Rimba Categories: Home, Project UpdatesTags: awareness, education, flying fox, fruit bat, outreach, Project Pteropus, Pteropodidae

Publication update 18: Bats in the Anthropocene

If you’d like to learn more about bats, don’t miss out on downloading this brand new, open-access book on bat conservation edited by Tigga Kingston and Christian Voigt: ‘Bats in the Anthropocene: conservation of bats in a changing world’. Thanks to partial funding from SEABCRU, this online book is completely free to download, either in whole or as separate chapters. Continue reading →

December 10, 2015January 18, 2016 by Rimba Categories: Home, PublicationsTags: bats, conservation, fruit bat, human-wildlife conflict, Pteropodidae, Sheema Abdul Aziz Leave a comment