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The pteropus usually live in Tropical regions. Areas that usually have a great majority of fruit. Tropical regions are a great environment for flying foxes to find food and to pollinate. The pteropus pollinates plants and fruits such as bananas.
How can we protect our samoan flying fox?
Why should we care?
What is the scientific name? The scientific name is pteropus samoensis. The samoan flying fox is commonly known in a different name though. The pteropus is known as pe'a vao in the native tongue.
Humans have an interest in hunting the bats. Some people feel that the flying foxes have a unique taste and hunt them so they can feed on them. Which is why humans are the greatest impact on them. Owls and Falcons feed on the bats also but Humans impact them greatly.
Pteropus is responsible for pollination and planting seeds of 300 plants.
American Samoa and Western Samoa actually took action to pass legislation to protect our flying foxes. The legislation protects the flying foxes from Hunting and exportation. The pteropus has also been listed as a category 2 candidate of endangered species under the U.S Endangered Species Act. Now that the flying foxes are protected from hunting they will have a way better chance of survival now.
why should we care? (pt.2)
The samoan Flying Fox's main source of food is fruits. Fruits are not the only food they eat though. Pteropus also feed on leaves and plant parts. They feed on 32 different plant species.
Humans use 450 products that contain 134 of these plants that the flying foxes pollinate. If we don't try and stop these people who have a weird taste for flying foxes, we could lose the many products we love. Not only would we be losing the products we use or the bananas we love to eat, but we would also be losing another beautiful animal to extinction just because we could not limit what we eat or think with our mind and not our stomach.
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What do they look like?
The samoan flying foxes are medium sized. Adults weighing between 400-500 grams. They are usually dark brown with lighter colors in some areas of the fur.
Sources used
video-Youtube.com/Lovenature.com
information-Animaldiversity.org
images- BiodiversityWarriors.Wikispaces.com
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