Boracay Fruit Bats

Boracay Fruit Bats

Explore Boracay's bat caves and experience the spectacle of the Boracay Fruit Bats — one of the Island's favorite attractions. These animals are also known as the flying fox because of their similarity in appearance with their namesakes. Fruit bats eat fruits or lick nectar from flowers. Often the fruits are crushed and only the juices consumed. The teeth are adapted to bite through hard fruit skins. Large fruit bats must land in order to eat fruit, while the smaller species are able to hover with flapping wings in front of a flower or fruit. These animals – an endangered species &ndash are near extinction in Boracay. See them while they are still around.

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Endangered Fruit Bats

Sirenna's comments updated on Nov 6, 2005, in VirtualTourist Take a boat ride to the north of the island at sunset and watch the fruit bats as they fly over to the mainland to feed. A really spectacular sight - they are absolutely HUGE!

Some unscrupulous locals offer tours through the forest to visit the bats during the day, but avoid doing this - it disturbs their natural sleeping habits. The number of bats is declining every year, from over 2 thousand two years ago to just over a thousand now, due to a (so-called) eco-resort being built on their nesting site.

Go and see them as soon as possible, as they are about to begin building a Shangri-La hotel on top of them too, which will no doubt wipe them out completely. For more information about endangered species and conservation in the Philippines, contact the PESCP (Philippine Endemic Species Conservation Project).

It is a great shame that the local authorities in Boracay seem to care so little about preserving the island's endangered wildlife such as monkeys, turtles, birds and fruit bats. In a year or two there may be none left.

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