Flying Foxes Chiroptera: Pteropodidae: Pteropus Genus Pteropus Illustration by *JennyParks Done as part of a larger commission for a research project by Susan M. Tsang [a CCNY grad student] who studies the phylogeography of Southeast Asian animals, particularly that of flying foxes  Pteropus, she says, is an ideal focal taxon for Southeast Asian biogeographic studies. Flying foxes are Old World fruit bats that play an  important role in seed dispersal in island ecosystems.
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