Indian Flying Foxes

creeching and chattering, Sri Lanka's Indian Flying Foxes Cynopterus marginatus (probably) create a racket within the trees overhead in the hills close to metropolis.  

Known as "flying foxes" for his or her pretty fox-like faces and light-weight brown fur, they take on a more ominous look once then wrap themselves in their black, shiny wings or take flight like someone's worst Dracula nightmare overhead.  

But these crackers square measure not blood-suckers.  They are herbivorous crackers WHO use their acute eye-sight to search out food.  (Most Old World Fruit crackers use vision, not echolocation for direction finding.)

The  Indian Flying Foxes have a wingspan of concerning one.2m (47in) and they roost during the day high within the trees, taking flight in late afternoon for a night-time of fruit hunting.  

They are not protected internationally, which they ought to be as they're searched for food, destroyed as pests in farmland, and sometimes unbroken as pets in cages.  Many tropical plants such as bananas, cloves, mangoes, breadfruit, cashew nuts survive due to pollenation or seed dejection from the crackers.