{"id":3573,"date":"2025-07-14T21:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T04:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/?p=3573"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:16:31","slug":"faq-is-it-a-fruit-bat-or-a-flying-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/faq-is-it-a-fruit-bat-or-a-flying-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"FAQ: Is It a Fruit Bat or a Flying Fox?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3ffa9a8aef284283cb4fb33aa4b5f625\"><strong>Q: Is there a difference between a fruit bat and a flying fox?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Great question! <em>&#8220;Fruit bat&#8221;<\/em> is the general term for bats in the <strong>Pteropodidae<\/strong> family\u2014also known as <strong>megabats<\/strong>. &#8220;Flying fox&#8221; refers to the <strong>largest<\/strong> of these fruit bats, especially those with fox-like faces and long snouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So basically:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>All flying foxes are fruit bats<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But not all fruit bats are flying foxes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-da88e559381b14ef0eb0d9daab8f574d\">Flying foxes typically have wingspans over 3 feet and roost in large, noisy colonies\u2014often seen in parts of Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. Smaller fruit bats might live alone or in smaller groups and may look a bit less like furry canines with wings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Learn more: <a href=\"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/meet-the-fruit-bat-natures-nighttime-gardener\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3541\">Meet the Fruit Bat: Nature\u2019s Nighttime Gardener<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-2571651847880215\"\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n<!-- banner ad -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2571651847880215\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"7178535257\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Disclaimer:<\/strong>&nbsp;This blog post is for edutainment purposes only and may not be entirely accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Is there a difference between a fruit bat and a flying fox? A: Great question! &#8220;Fruit bat&#8221; is the general term for bats in the Pteropodidae family\u2014also known as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,145],"tags":[26,49,45,112,115,31],"class_list":["post-3573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animal-bytes","category-animal-faq","tag-animal-facts","tag-asian-animals","tag-australian-animals","tag-bats","tag-faq","tag-wild-animals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/rodrigues-fruit-bat-4223709383.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3637,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions\/3637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}