Beaufort's Naked-backed Fruit Bat
Dobsonia beauforti Bergmans, 1975
Also calledGołogrzbietek wyspowy (pol) · Kubu Beaufort (ind) · Ratpenat d'esquena nua de Beaufort (cat) · Roussette de Beaufort (fra) · Waigeo-Nacktrückenflughund (deu) · kaloň Beaufortův (ces) · salawatinkaljuselkä (fin) · Крылан Бофорта (rus) · ワイゲオケナシフルーツコウモリ (jpn)
First described in: Beaufortia vol.23 295 p.3
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
activity
Activity patterns. Beaufort’s Naked-backed Fruit Bat is nocturnal and roosts in sea and inland caves.
Pteropodidae
biology_ecology
Habitat. Primary and secondary tropical moist forests, pandanus palms, coconut and cocoa plantations, and village gardens.
Pteropodidae
biology_ecology
Movements, Home range and Social organization. Beaufort’s Naked-backed Fruit Bat is highly gregarious, sometimes roosting in large colonies of thousands of individuals. It will also roost in smaller groups of tens of individuals in trees.
Pteropodidae
breeding
Breeding. Seven of 14 Beaufort’s Naked-backed Fruit Bats examined from Waigeo in December were lactating or pregnant. Females observed on Biak in September were in the first trimester of pregnancy. On Batanta, many pregnant females were observed in October.
Pteropodidae
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2432831.