African Straw-colored Fruit Bat
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African Straw-colored Fruit Bat

Eidolon helvum

Overview

Mikumi National Park is the atlas place where the African Straw-colored Fruit Bat is recorded, with records gathering most thickly in Congo - Kinshasa, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia, Kenya and Benin. The atlas holds 237 open records of this mammal from 23 countries.

Recorded seasons differ by region and each place page shows the months recorded there.

Records
237
Countries
23
Atlas places
1
Recorded in and around these atlas places

These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the African Straw-colored Fruit Bat as much as where it lives. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.

Where you'll find them

Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.

  • Congo - Kinshasa
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 87 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Côte d’Ivoire
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 33 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Zambia
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 32 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Kenya
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 23 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Benin
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 15 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Tanzania
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 7 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • São Tomé & Príncipe
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 5 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Malawi
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 4 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Ghana
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 9 records · updated 40 days ago
    Likely
  • Cameroon
    25 km zone · medium confidence · 5 records · updated 40 days ago
    Likely

Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.

Photographs
1 of African Straw-colored Fruit Bat