Endangered
Rodrigues flying fox
Pteropus rodricensis
Rodrigues flying fox is a bat in the family Pteropodidae (order Chiroptera) — Pteropus rodricensis, recorded as Endangered and tied to Mauritius.
The bat
Rodrigues flying fox is a bat in the family Pteropodidae (order Chiroptera) — Pteropus rodricensis.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Rodrigues, an island in the Indian Ocean belonging to Mauritius. Its natural habitat is tropical lowland forests.
In an effort to preserve them from extinction, some bats have been caught and are being bred in various zoos around the world.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
At night, the bats forage in dry woodland for fruit of various trees, such as tamarinds, rose-apples, mangoes, palms, and figs. Observations in captivity show each dominant male gathers a harem of up to ten females to roost and mate with.
The bats are sociable, roost in large groups during the day and feed at night, squeezing the juice and flesh out of fruits.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Rodrigues flying fox is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Rodrigues flying fox, Wikidata item Q1091763. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
