Picture 1, the baby of the giant bat in the Philippines, without looking closely, many people think it is a small milk dog. The Philippine golden-crowned fruit bat belongs to the family Pterophoridae, which contains the world's largest bats

Picture 1, the baby of the giant bat in the Philippines, without looking closely, many people think it is a small milk dog.

The Philippine golden-crowned fruit bat belongs to the family Pteropodidae, which contains the world's largest bat species, with a forearm length of 2.125 meters, the longest of all species, and a wingspan of 1.7 to 1.5 meters, which is already the height of an ordinary human.

These behemoths are very scary in appearance, in fact, they are harmless, because they are vegetarian, the diet is mainly the leaves of fruits and plants, the main food source is the fig tree, they are like other bats, they are nocturnal animals.

Figure three, the English name of the bat is translated as Chinese is a flying dog, look at the netizens to their big black dog put on a black cape, like not like the Philippine giant bat.

Due to human overexploitation, the food and habitat of the Philippine giant bat is becoming less and less abundant, and the population of the golden-crowned fruit bat continues to decline sharply, according to the ADW report, their numbers fell by 50% between 1986 and 2016.