Eidolon helvum (Kerr, 1792)

Monadjem, Ara, Richards, Leigh & Denys, Christiane, 2016, An African bat hotspot: the exceptional importance of Mount Nimba for bat diversity, Acta Chiropterologica 18 (2), pp. 359-375 : 363

Eidolon helvum (Kerr, 1792)

A single specimen was captured on 16 December 2010 in Yekepa ( Liberia), however the species was regularly sighted in this and neighbouring villages in December 2010 but not in the following year in December 2011. These sightings were of bats at the roost during the day, usually in the canopy of a tall tree, or of bats in a fruiting tree at night. The number of bats either observed at roosts or fruit trees never exceeded 10 individuals. In the case of the fruiting tree, bats were recorded in it over a two week period, but detailed notes were not taken. Migratory movements are well known in this species (e.g., Thomas, 1983; Richter and Cummings, 2006). Although satellite-tracked individuals migrated over large distances (Richter and Cummings, 2008), the broad-scale (i.e., continent-wide) movement ecology of this species is still not well understood (Ossa et al., 2012). However, a recent study has report- ed on the landscape-scale movements of a small number of individuals fitted with tracking loggers ( Fahr et al., 2015).