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The Philippine-Tube Nosed Fruit Bat




Philippine-Tube Nosed Fruit Bat
© 2002 (Photograph by L. Heaney)

Probably now reduced to about one percent of its original population size, the Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat survives only in narrow bands of lowland forest on two or three islands.




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