Egyptian fruit bat, Egyptian rousette (Rousettus aegyptiacus) Common fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus) flying in Israel
עברית: עטלף פירות מצוי עף בישראל
Date 4 February 2010, 20:58:01
Source File:PikiWiki Israel 11327 Wildlife and Plants of Israel.JPG by אורן פלס
Author Photographer: אורן פלס Oren Peles.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PikiWiki_Israel_11327_Wildlife_and_Plants_of_Israel-Bat-001.jpg
The Egyptian fruit bat or Egyptian rousette (Rousettus aegyptiacus) is a species of Old World fruit bat. Egyptian fruit bats are found throughout Africa and throughout the Middle East, as far east as Pakistan and northern India.
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Pteropodidae
Subfamily: Pteropodinae
Genus: Rousettus
Species: Rousettus aegyptiacus (Geoffroy, 1810)
