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ANIMAL SPECIES:Common Blossom Bat

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Common Blossom Bats often hover in front of flowers as they feed from them. They are important pollinators of many rainforest plants.

Habitat

Common Blossom Bats roost on tree branches, hidden by leaves, in rainforest, wet eucalypt forests and paperbark swamps.

Behaviour and adaptations

Feeding and Diet

Common Blossom Bats eat the nectar and pollen of bottlebrush, paperbark, banksia and gum tree blossoms. They have a long, narrow face and a very long, thin tongue with brush-like tip which helps them collect nectar and pollen from flowers.

Conservation Status

Common Blossom Bats are vulnerable to loss of feeding and roosting habitat from clearing of forests for agriculture and housing estates.

Classification

Species:
australis
Genus:
Syconycteris
Family:
Pteropodidae
Order:
Chiroptera
Subclass:
Eutheria
Subphylum:
Vertebrata
Phylum:
Chordata
Kingdom:
Animalia

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Last Updated: 23 December 2009

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