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Paniki prepared with fruit bat meat cooked in spicy rica green chili pepper. A Minahasan dish. Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.. Bats as food are eaten by people in some areas of North America, [1] Asia, Africa, Pacific Rim countries, [2] and some other cultures, including the United States, China, [3] Vietnam, the Seychelles, the Philippines, [4] [5] [6] Indonesia, [7] Palau, Thailand, [8 ...
Pollination is necessary for plants to continue their populations and 3/4 of the plant species that contribute to the world's food supply are plants that require pollinators. [78] Insect pollinators, like bees, are large contributors to crop production, over 200 billion dollars worth of crop species are pollinated by these insects. [ 71 ]
In this part of the world there is particularly close association between some species of columnar cacti and bat species, who provide pollination in exchange for nectar with composition matching their nutritional needs. [17] Nectarivorous bats might be at particular risk of extinction due to their reliance on particular species of flowering plants.
Insectivorous bats may eat over 120 percent of their body weight per day, while frugivorous bats may eat over twice their weight. [148] They can travel significant distances each night, exceptionally as much as 38.5 km (24 mi) in the spotted bat (Euderma maculatum), in search of food. [149] Bats use a variety of hunting strategies. [130]
Pollinators fluctuate in abundance and activity independently of their plants, [22] [27] and any one species may fail to pollinate a plant in a particular year. Thus a plant may be at an advantage if it attracts several species or types of pollinators, ensuring pollen transfer every year. [ 28 ]
In addition to pollinating these plants, the cave nectar bat is an important pollinator for major crops, including up to 55 species of plants. Their tendencies to pollinate certain plants is determined by the proximity of their living quarters. There are at least thirteen plant taxa that the cave nectar bat feeds upon.
This bat is a generalist, eating a wide variety of fruits that are characterized by being high in protein and low in fiber. [3] During times when fruit isn't plentiful, these bats supplement their diets using nectar and pollen from flowers, which also opens up the possibility for them being pollinators for the flowers they eat. [3]
These bats primarily eat small fruits, often found flying from tree to tree, feeding on their primary food source, the fig. However, the fig is not a nutritious food source, due to its low amounts of protein and high amounts of sugar, but it is abundant, so the bats must cover a large number of trees to receive the nutrition necessary to sustain flight and feed their young.