Bio
Fruit Bats are members of the suborder of Megachiroptera of the order Chiroptera, the group of winged flying mammals. They are typically restricted to the Old World in tropical and subtropical distribution, ranging no further than the eastern Mediterranean and South Asia and are absent from northwest Africa and southwest Australia. Most fruit bats have large eyes, allowing them to orient themselves visually in twilight and inside caves and forests. Their sense of smell is excellent, and they are the only bats who do not use echolocation. They are migratory mammals, traveling south to escape cold temperatures. Fruit bats have been reported on island on their migratory path north. The Skipper actually confused them with vampire bats and practically had Gilligan convinced he was going to be a vampire. One of them terrified Ginger and Mary Ann exploring the caves for fragments of the Stone Tablet.