Wahlberg's Epauletted Fruit Bat

A Group of Wahlberg's Epauletted Fruit Bats come here every spring (October) to mate and raise their offspring. They sleep during the day in a King Palm (Archontophoenix alexandrea). At the moment we have about 14 bats here with at least 4 female bats with babies, some smaller juvenile bats and some grown up bats. The maximum we counted 32 bats here in our palm tree. They come every year to the same tree.

A Group of Wahlberg's Epauletted Fruit Bats come here every spring (October) to mate and raise their offspring. They sleep during the day in a King Palm (Archontophoenix alexandrea). At the moment we have about 14 bats here with at least 4 female bats with babies, some smaller juvenile bats and some grown up bats. The maximum we counted 32 bats here in our palm tree. They come every year to the same tree.

A Group of Wahlberg's Epauletted Fruit Bats come here every spring (October) to mate and raise their offspring. They sleep during the day in a King Palm (Archontophoenix alexandrea). At the moment we have about 14 bats here with at least 4 female bats with babies, some smaller juvenile bats and some grown up bats. The maximum we counted 32 bats here in our palm tree. They come every year to the same tree.

Family group of Wahlberg's Epauletted Fruit Bat that lives in our garden

Captured while leaving a roost under the roof of the National Institute for Medical Research library at Amani Hill Research Station.

A colony of Wahlberg's Epauletted Fruit Bats come every spring to our garden, meet, mate and raise their offspring. They stay untill late autum and fly away in winter. This year they were quiet late, but finally the first 7 fruit bats arrived a couple of days ago and stay in the same Palm Tree (Archonotophoenix alexandrae) than every year.

The inside story: We used to have a colony of up to 36 Epauletted Fruit Bats in our garden every summer. They arrive every year in spring, raise their offspring and leave late autum. This year only 7 returned quiet late in November (including 4 mothers with babies). They used to live always in the same palm tree (King Palm) in our garden. Don't know what happend, but in the morning on 18th December15 they didn't come back from their night outing. I still see them flying around at night time, but couldn't find them during the day. In between a single mother with baby visits the king palm for a day and on 31.12.15 this mother with baby slept during the day in a different palm (also king palm) close to our pool. After the day of rest she also disappeared again and this year up till know I haven't spotted them in our garden and only see them flying around our house at night.

Mother and baby

I captured 3 individual Wahlberg's epouletted fruit bats in a mist net set in a woodland near Hola Irrigation scheme within NYS camp. The pictured was captured by Martin Odino

Wahlberg's Epauletted Fruit Bats (Epomophorus wahlbergi), Arusha, Tanzania

--Haplochromis (talk) 05:58, 7 November 2018 (UTC) Summary[edit] Description: Deutsch: Wahlberg-Epaulettenflughund (Epomophorus wahlbergi). Date: 30 October 2018, 12:20:10. Source: Own work. Author: Haplochromis.

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Wahlberg's Epauletted Fruit Bat (Epomophorus wahlbergi), Arusha, Tanzania

--Haplochromis (talk) 05:59, 7 November 2018 (UTC) Summary[edit] Description: Deutsch: Wahlberg-Epaulettenflughund (Epomophorus wahlbergi). Date: 30 October 2018, 12:52:11. Source: Own work. Author: Haplochromis.

--Haplochromis (talk) 05:58, 7 November 2018 (UTC) Summary[edit] Description: Deutsch: Wahlberg-Epaulettenflughund (Epomophorus wahlbergi). Date: 30 October 2018, 12:20:12. Source: Own work. Author: Haplochromis.

--Haplochromis (talk) 05:58, 7 November 2018 (UTC) Summary[edit] Description: Deutsch: Wahlberg-Epaulettenflughund (Epomophorus wahlbergi). Date: 30 October 2018, 12:20:26. Source: Own work. Author: Haplochromis.

--Haplochromis (talk) 05:58, 7 November 2018 (UTC) Summary[edit] Description: Deutsch: Wahlberg-Epaulettenflughund (Epomophorus wahlbergi). Date: 30 October 2018, 12:21:09. Source: Own work. Author: Haplochromis.

--Haplochromis (talk) 05:59, 7 November 2018 (UTC) Summary[edit] Description: Deutsch: Wahlberg-Epaulettenflughund (Epomophorus wahlbergi). Date: 30 October 2018, 12:52:34. Source: Own work. Author: Haplochromis.

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