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Bats are the least studied group of small mammals that constitute a quarter of all known mammalian species of the country. These creatures are extremely beneficial and provide a number of ecological services. The fruit bats are especially important in maintaining forest diversity and four species of fruit bats are reported from Pakistan. However, they are blamed to be the orchard destroyers and farmer enemies in many parts of the country and are killed by the local people. The present study provides the recent records of fulvous fruit bat with a morphological comparison of the species from...

In most parts of the world people dislike bats. This attitude may be accredited to the fact that bats are tiny creatures and strange to humans both behaviorally and morphologically. Their physical appearance and aesthetic value does not evoke any biophilic response which normally is perceived for other animals having large size and neotenic features. The other factors that can appeal to humans such as similarity to humans, shape, type of locomotion, posture, surface texture, and color are also absent in bats. In Pakistan bats are considered loathsome and fearsome, which is the major hurdle in...