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    The straw-coloured fruit bat (Eidolon helvum) is a large fruit bat that is the most widely distributed of all the African megabats. It is quite common...
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    species: Madagascan fruit bat, Eidolon dupreanum Straw-coloured fruit bat, Eidolon helvum Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World:...
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    few minutes at most. A 1994 study of the straw-coloured fruit bat (Eidolon helvum) and hammer-headed bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus) found a mean respiratory...
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    been found in fruit bats in Madagascar (Pteropus rufus, Eidolon dupreanum) and Ghana (Eidolon helvum) indicating a wide geographic distribution of the viruses...
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    known henipaviruses were detected in African straw-colored fruit bats (Eidolon helvum) in Ghana. The finding of these novel henipaviruses outside Australia...
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    hyrax (Dendrohyrax dorsalis). About 128,400 straw-coloured fruit bats (Eidolon helvum) were estimated in 2011 to be traded as bushmeat every year in four...
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  • rabies-like illness in mammals. It was first isolated from a fruit bat (Eidolon helvum) from Lagos Island, Nigeria in 1956. Brain samples from the bat showed...
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    types, fruit-eating and insect-eating bats. Straw-coloured fruit bats (Eidolon helvum) and epaulated fruit bats (Epomophorus gambianus) are the most common...
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    found that this tree relies heavily on the straw-coloured fruit bat (Eidolon helvum) for seed dispersal, over 98% of the seed falling to the ground having...
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    suhaniahae)) Subfamily Eidolinae Genus Eidolon Madagascan fruit bat (Eidolon dupreanum) Straw-coloured fruit bat (Eidolon helvum) Subfamily Harpyionycterinae Genus...
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    due to a >50% decline over the past decade. Straw-coloured fruit bat Eidolon helvum 1.14 billion= NT Pallas's long-tongued bat Glossophaga soricina 1.03...
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  • found in Miniopterus bats (insectivorous), Rousettus aegyptiacus, and Eidolon helvum. The latter two are both fruit bats. The virus is fragile as it can...
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    most successful of which are zebra and buffalo. Close to ten million Eidolon helvum (African straw-coloured fruit bat) migrate to the Mushitu swamp evergreen...
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    reservoir: Comparative susceptibility of the straw-colored fruit bat (Eidolon helvum) to three strains of Lagos bat virus". PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases...
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    (9.9 oz) (the second largest African bat) straw-coloured fruit bats (Eidolon helvum) and galagos of various sizes (usually weighing a kilo or less) but...
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  • Old World fruit bats) Subfamily: Pteropodinae Genus: Eidolon Straw-coloured fruit bat, Eidolon helvum LC Genus: Epomophorus Angolan epauletted fruit bat...
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    Sri Lankan junglefowl (Gallus lafayettii) Straw-coloured fruit bat (Eidolon helvum) Urial (Ovis vignei) Victoria crowned pigeon (Goura victoria) Discovery...
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  • Old World fruit bats) Subfamily: Pteropodinae Genus: Eidolon Straw-coloured fruit bat, Eidolon helvum NT Genus: Rousettus Egyptian fruit bat, Rousettus aegyptiacus...
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  • Lissonycteris angolensis LC Subfamily: Pteropodinae Genus: Eidolon Straw-coloured fruit bat, Eidolon helvum LC Genus: Epomophorus Gambian epauletted fruit bat...
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  • Old World fruit bats) Subfamily: Pteropodinae Genus: Eidolon Straw-coloured fruit bat, Eidolon helvum LC Genus: Epomophorus Gambian epauletted fruit bat...
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  • Old World fruit bats) Subfamily: Pteropodinae Genus: Eidolon Straw-coloured fruit bat, Eidolon helvum LC Genus: Epomophorus Gambian epauletted fruit bat...
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  • Old World fruit bats) Subfamily: Pteropodinae Genus: Eidolon Straw-coloured fruit bat, Eidolon helvum LC Genus: Epomophorus Angolan epauletted fruit bat...
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  • bat (2013) Family Pteropodidae Pteropus vampyrus, fruit bat (2012) Eidolon helvum, Old World fruit bat (2013) Family Rhinolophidae Rhinolophus ferrumequinum...
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    Megabat species housed at Lubee include: Straw-coloured fruit bat (Eidolon helvum) Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus) Gray-headed flying fox (Pteropus...
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    Old World fruit bats) Subfamily: Pteropodinae Genus: Eidolon Straw-coloured fruit bat, Eidolon helvum LC Genus: Epomophorus Peters's epauletted fruit bat...
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  • Old World fruit bats) Subfamily: Pteropodinae Genus: Eidolon Straw-coloured fruit bat, Eidolon helvum LC Genus: Epomophorus Peters's epauletted fruit bat...
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  • Old World fruit bats) Subfamily: Pteropodinae Genus: Eidolon Straw-coloured fruit bat, Eidolon helvum LC Genus: Epomophorus Peters's epauletted fruit bat...
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  • Guano samples from a colony of an estimated 400,000 bats of the species Eidolon helvum were collected and screened for viral RNA. While 3 RNA genomes were...
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  • oporaphilum Vampyrum spectrum Dobsonia pannietensis Dyacopterus spadiceus Eidolon helvum Eonycteris robusta Epomophorus angolensis Pteropus caniceps Pteropus...
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  • Old World fruit bats) Subfamily: Pteropodinae Genus: Eidolon Straw-coloured fruit bat, Eidolon helvum LC Genus: Epomophorus Gambian epauletted fruit bat...
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