Pakistan is an agricultural country and most of its citizens to cultivate various types of plants and fruits. Fruit bats Pakistan considered pests because they eat a lot of fruits. Peshwar is the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Much of the area cultivate different types of plants that can provide habitat for invertebrates and vertebrates. Bats play an important role in agro-ecosystems Pakistan, especially the fruit bats spread seeds and role in the pollination of plants. About 400 plants from 163 species depends on the fruit bats in seed dispersal and pollination that is ultimately beneficial to humans. Barmer in India is a dynamic center for biodiversity.
Bats or Chiroptera is the second largest order Rodentia in Klasis mammals. Bats consists of 1150 species and seven species consisting of 5 genera and 4 familia. Bats have a species consisting of fruit bats (Pteropus giganteus, Pteropodidae), bats fulvus leaf-nosed (Hipposideros fulvus, Hippo-sideridae), bats tailed (Rhinopoma microphyllum, Rhinopomitidae), bats Pipistrellus of Vespertilionidae (India Pipistrellus, Pipistrellus coromandra , Pipistrellus tenuis, Jawan Pipistrellus, Pipistrellus javinacum) and the yellow house bat (Scotophilus heathii, Vespertilionidae). The diversity of food and habitat leads to differences in foraging and how to eat among different species of bats.
Figure Illustration of Bats or Chiroptera
Bats belong to the order Chiroptera. This Order consists of two sub-orders are Megachiroptera (fruit bats) and Mikrochiroptera (insectivorous bats). Bats are spread all over the world except Antarctica, the North Pole and a few isolated oceanic islands. Bats also contributed an enormous amount of keanekaragamn mammals. The Indian subcontinent has 119 species of bats were divided into 8 familia and 37 genera, spread from Afghanistan, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives Myanmar to the north. Pakistan has more than a quarter of mammal species. Taxonomy bat has a lot to learn, so it is still not clear about the exact number of species of bats, although more than 50 bat species representing 26 genera of 8 familia reported in Pakistan.
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