InfoRousettus is a genus of Old World fruit bats or megabats.more...They are sometimes referred to as dog-faced fruit bats, or flying foxes. The genus is a member of the suborder Megachiroptera. The genus consists of ten species that range over most of Africa to southeast Asia, and the islands of the south Pacific.
It is endemic to Indonesia and is known only from four specimens collected in the swamp forest of Lore Lindu National Park, in central Sulawesi.It was only described in 2003, the most recently described of the genus, Rousettus.…
Egyptian fruit bat found throughout Africa, except in the desert regions of the Sahara, and throughout the Middle East, as far east as Pakistan and northern India.Due to its extensive geographic range, and relatively large wild population, Rousettus aegyptiacus does not hold any specific conservation status.The Egyptian fruit bat is small compared to some of its megachiropterid relatives.…
Like other fruit bats, Rousettus amplexicaudatus have sensitive hearing and sense of smell and good eyesight which help them to manoeuvre well during flight, specifically at night.What makes them different from other fruit bats is their echolocating ability.…
The local sea snakes laticaudinae have venom ten times as potent as rattlesnake venom.Before the arrival of Europeans, the only mammals in the island were six endemic bat species, including Rousettus, a large fruit bat that was eaten by locals.The world's highest biodiversity of Volutomitridae is in waters off New Caledonia.…
Further studies are necessary to establish whether Egyptian rousettes are the actual hosts of MARV and RAVV or whether they get infected via contact with another animal and therefore serve only as intermediate hosts.Recently the first experimental infection study of Rousettus aegyptiacus with MARV provided further insight into the possible involvement of these bats in MARV ecology.Experimentally infected bats developed relatively low viremia lasting at least 5 days, but remained healthy and didn't develop any notable gross pathology.…
Leschenault's Rousette (Rousettus leschenaultii) is a species of fruit bat found in South and Southeast Asia.
The Egyptian fruit bat or Egyptian rousette (Rousettus aegyptiacus) is a species of Old World fruit bat.Egyptian fruit bat found throughout Africa, except in the desert regions of the Sahara, and throughout the Middle East, as far east as Pakistan and northern India.…
These genetic studies support the monophyly of bats.Soon after Pettigrew's study, work on another genus of megabat (Rousettus) disputed the existence of an advanced pattern of connections between the retina and the superior colliculus.However, this conclusion was later criticised on methodological grounds.…
The fauna observed in the caves are predominantly bats, as well as the golden gecko.The type of bat reported is the fulvous fruit bat (Rousettus leschenaultii) - a species which roosts in large caves, old buildings, dungeons and dark areas of old forts.This species has short and slender musculature with large, well developed eyes.…
Lagos bat virus has been isolated from wild and domestic mammals in southern Africa including bats, cats and one dog.One isolate was made in France in 1999 when a fruit bat (Rousettus egypticus), which had been displaying signs of aggression, died.…
They hang upside down, with their wings folded closely around their bodies.Egyptian fruit bats, along with other species in the genus Rousettus, are the only megachiropterid bats to use echolocation, which they accomplish by emitting a series of sharp clicks with their tongues.The clicks are normally slow and constant, and speed up dramatically when the bats approach an object.…
The Long-haired rousette (Rousettus lanosus) is a species of megabat in the Pteropodidae family.
The bare-backed rousette (Rousettus spinalatus) is a species of megabat.
There are more birds, mammals, and reptiles than one would expect to find on an Indian Ocean island, including lemurs, as in nearby Madagascar.Endemic species include 21 species of birds, 9 species of reptiles, and two species of fruit bats (Pteropus livingstonii and Rousettus obliviosus).Other mammals include the mongoose lemur (Eulemur mongoz) and a sub-species of the Seychelles fruit bat (Pteropus seychellensis comorensis).…
The mature progeny particles then infect other cells to repeat the cycle.In 2009, the successful isolation of infectious MARV was reported from caught healthy Egyptian rousettes (Rousettus aegyptiacus).This isolation, together with the isolation of infectious RAVV, strongly suggests that Old World fruit bats are involved in the natural maintenance of marburgviruses.…
It is therefore currently assumed that the knowledge obtained for MARV can be extrapolated to RAVV and that all RAVV proteins behave analogous to those of MARV.In 2009, the successful isolation of infectious RAVV was reported from caught healthy Egyptian rousettes (Rousettus aegyptiacus).This isolation, together with the isolation of infectious MARV, strongly suggests that Old World fruit bats are involved in the natural maintenance of marburgviruses.…
The Sulawesi Rousette (Rousettus celebensis) is a species of megabat in the Pteropodidae family.
The Comoro Rousette (Rousettus obliviosus) is a species of megabat in the Pteropodidae family.
The first suggests that laryngeal echolocation evolved twice in Chiroptera, once in the Yangochiroptera and once in the Horseshoe bats (Rhinolophidae).The second proposes that laryngeal echolocation had a single origin in Chiroptera, was subsequently lost in the family Pteropodidae (all megabats), and later evolved as a system of tongue-clicking in the genus Rousettus.Individual bat species echolocate within specific frequency ranges that suit their environment and prey types.…
