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n. - A genus of fruit bats

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  • The Cooks represent the easternmost range of Pteropus spp. in the Pacific.
  • Large flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus), Indonesia (Photograph by Marty Fujita)
  • The area still supports nationally important populations of Lyle's flying-fox (Pteropus lylei).
  • Another bat species, the extinct Guam flying-fox (Pteropus takudae), was last seen in the 1960s.
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