Critically Endangered Fruit Bat Make Dramatic Return From Brink Of Extinction
Saturday, November 1, 2008 - 12:28
in Biology & Nature
A once critically endangered bat species, the 'Pemba flying fox', has made a dramatic return from the brink of extinction, according to new research. As recently as 1989, only a scant few individual fruit bats could be observed on the tropical island of Pemba, off Tanzania. Its numbers have since soared to an astounding 22,000 bats in less than 20 years, the new research finds.