Zoo Day | Meet the the Rodrigues fruit bat
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SAVING THE RODRIGUES FRUIT BAT 🎥🎃🦇 There's nothing scarier to us than extinction... and these flying foxes were once the world's rarest bat. In the 1970’s, only 70 were left on the island of Rodrigues. Tropical cyclones, climate change and deforestation left their future hanging in the balance. We've been working with the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation for over a decade to bring them back from the brink. Check out our new conservation film in the comments below for the full story 👇 🎥 Images
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SAVING THE RODRIGUES FRUIT BAT 🎥🎃🦇 There's nothing scarier to us than extinction... and these flying foxes were once the world's rarest bat. In the 1970’s, only 70 were left on the island of Rodrigues. Tropical cyclones, climate change and deforestation left their future hanging in the balance. We've been working with the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation for over a decade to bring them back from the brink. Check out our new conservation film in the comments below for the full story 👇 🎥 Images
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🌟🎬 This is the remarkable conservation story of the flying foxes of Rodrigues🦇 🇲🇺 50 years ago, the Rodrigues fruit bat was the rarest bat in the world. Today, thanks to over a decade of dedicated conservation work by @mauritianwildlife and their partners like Chester Zoo, this unique species has made a remarkable recovery: from less than 70 to over 20,000! As key seed dispersers, they’re also helping to recreate the forest that was once lost on Rodrigues. AND, perhaps most importantly, man
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🌟🎬 This is the remarkable conservation story of the flying foxes of Rodrigues🦇 🇲🇺 50 years ago, the Rodrigues fruit bat was the rarest bat in the world. Today, thanks to over a decade of dedicated conservation work by @mauritianwildlife and their partners like Chester Zoo, this unique species has made a remarkable recovery: from less than 70 to over 20,000! As key seed dispersers, they’re also helping to recreate the forest that was once lost on Rodrigues. AND, perhaps most importantly, man
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Celebrating Bat Month and Bat Week with these fuzzy sky puppies! 🦇🖤 Rodrigues fruit bats grow to be about 5 to 8 inches tall and have a wingspan of about 3 feet. We're proud to be one of a handful of zoos in the country that has a breeding group of these endangered bats. | Philadelphia Zoo
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Rodrigues Fruit Bat Baby Food Enrichment Fun
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Counting EVERY bat… because EVERY bat counts! 🦇🫶 Rodrigues fruit bats were once the world's most endangered species of bat, as just 70 individuals remained in the wild. After decades of teamwork alongside the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation there are now more than 20,000 thriving today 🌍 | Chester Zoo
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San Diego Zoo keepers are hand-raising a Rodrigues fruit bat after delivering it by C-section. | Reuters
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Happy Bat Appreciation Day from our Rodrigues fruit bats! 🦇💕 Bats play a critical role in their ecosystems by acting as natural pest control, seed dispersers, and plant pollinators. Rodrigues fruit bats are an endangered species, but thanks to dedicated conservation efforts from Philadelphia Zoo, other AZA zoos, and conservation partners, their population in the wild has grown from just around 70 individuals in the 1970s to over 20,000 today! | Philadelphia Zoo
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Next time you visit JungleWorld, make sure you look up to see the Rodrigues fruit bats hanging out in the trees. Which reminds us, this would be the perfect weekend to hang out with us at the zoo. | Bronx Zoo
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October is Bat Appreciation Month — the perfect time to take a closer look at our Rodrigues fruit bats! 🦇 Their wings are truly a marvel of nature — a thin layer of skin stretched over long, flexible finger bones that form a hand built for flight. Each movement of those “fingers” allows them to steer and glide with remarkable control, while their small claws help them grasp branches and hang comfortably upside down. These gentle fruit bats are living proof of how beautifully adapted bats are fo
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Cecily Tynan learns about rodrigues fruit bats during Zoo Adventures
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Thinking about visiting the zoo? Here’s a few reasons why you should swing by and see what’s waiting inside | Staten Island Zoo
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Rodrigues Fruit Bat, Grace, is celebrating #ThirstyThursday with some yummy peach juice! 🦇🧃 Did you know that the juice is one of the best parts of fruit, at least according to fruit bats? When eating whole fruit, they will use their tongues to squish fruit against the roof of their mouth in order to get the most juice. They will often spit out many of the solids, like seeds and rinds, in their bat spats! 🦇 #animals #bats #cute #florida #nonprofit | Lubee Bat Conservancy
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It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood — our zoo hospital neighborhood, that is! Every day, animals big and small come through our doors for care, and our X-ray machine has helped us heal countless patients over the years. But it’s ready for retirement, and we need your help to bring in new, state-of-the-art equipment. Thanks to the Diamond Matching Grant Program through The Staten Island Foundation, every $1 you donate becomes $3 — tripling your impact for the animals who need it most. Won’t
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There’s a whole lot of love here at the zoo today!! Whether you are spending today with your special someone, best friends, family members, by yourself or our animals, we hope you enjoy it! Love is love and embrace it in every way, shape and form. Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️ | Staten Island Zoo
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The weekend is finally here! Celebrate #Baturday with Rodrigues Fruit Bat, Grace! 🦇❤️ Keen eyes may have spotted the stuffed animals in the background of some of our photos and videos. Each habitat at Lubee has at least two of these "plushies," which the bats will interact with in a number of different ways. Because bats can use scent to communicte, scent marking is a large use of these stuffed animals. In this video, our animal care team had just rotated the plushies, which allows the bats to
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Need a cool down? A block of ice just otter-ly makes sense! Lewis loved his chilly enrichment filled with fish to help beat the heat. North American river otters especially benefit from enrichment that lets them manipulate, investigate, and explore—just like they would in the wild | Staten Island Zoo
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Happy International Bat Appreciation Day! 🦇 As well as Rodrigues fruit bats, we have Egyptian fruit bats too! 🥰 Come and see them in Tropical Trails during your day with us. 😊 👌 #internationalbatappreciationday #egyptianfruitbats #rodriguesfruitbats #nanananananananananananananananabatman | Folly Farm Adventure Park & Zoo
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Here’s a look back at how our animals celebrated Halloween! Yesterday’s spooky enrichment was a hit — from pumpkin puzzles to creepy-crawly treats, our animals had a frightfully fun time putting their minds (and paws) to work. 👻🧠🐾 | Staten Island Zoo
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Today we’re celebrating Crow and Raven Day with one of our most clever residents—Harriet the crow. Harriet is part of our ambassador animal program, helping us teach visitors about the incredible intelligence of crows. In this video, she’s solving a puzzle feeder to get to her favorite treat: waxworms, with a bonus mealworm at the end. Crows are known for their problem-solving skills, ability to use tools, and even their capacity to recognize individual human faces. Harriet’s curiosity and smart
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You may have noticed a few new feathered friends hanging out in our Africa Wing! Toolka the Cape Barren goose and Arnold the tawny frogmouth have officially moved in for the season. Though both hail from Australia, our warm and cozy Africa Wing makes the perfect winter getaway. Of course, before settling in, Toolka had to waddle over and check out her new neighbors—just to see what all the fuss was about. We think our mob was just as curious about her too! | Staten Island Zoo
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Lewis pumpkin = the perfect fall duo! 🎃 This playful otter has been busy enjoying his seasonal enrichment, and honestly… we could watch him all day if we could! | Staten Island Zoo
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Yesterday, we celebrated Nugget’s 11 birthday! She got a cake made with love and definitely seems to be enjoying it. Under human care, red kangaroos can live up to 25 years so Nugget is considered a middle-aged flyer, or female kangaroo 🎂🦘 | Staten Island Zoo
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