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Circle of Bhawani Das, Giant Indian Fruit Bat, circa 1777-1782, Indian. Pen and ink with watercolor and gouache on paper. 59.7x83.2 cm. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (http://www.metmuseum.org/), New York, New York; purchase, anonymous gift, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, Virginia G. LeCount Bequest, in memory of The LeCount Family, 2007 Benefit Fund, Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and gift of Dr Mortimer D. Sackler, Theresa Sackler, and Family, 2008 (2008.312). Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Bats are the only mammals capable of sustained flight. Rather than flexing their forelimbs to fly, as birds do, they flap their webbed digits, scooping handfuls of air. Most bats eat insects, but about a third of bats species are frugivores, such as Pteropus giganteus, also known as the giant fruit bat or flying fox. Giant fruit . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Thomas B. Cole, MD, MPH

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