Wildlifeof Vietnam
Geoffroy's Rousette
Bats
Photo: Davis Damaledo (iNaturalist) · CC BY 4.0
Rousettus amplexicaudatus
Rare visitor: recorded only occasionally in this country
Basic stats
Range
Southeast Asia and Malesia: Myanmar to the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea
Geoffroy's rousette is a fruit bat, one of ten species in the genus Rousettus. It occurs throughout Southeast Asia and the Malesia region of Oceania, in Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Borneo, Timor-Leste, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, the Bismarck Archipelago and Papua New Guinea. Like other fruit bats it has sensitive hearing and smell and good eyesight (Wikipedia, general species account).
Quick answers
- Where is the Geoffroy's Rousette found?
- Southeast Asia and Malesia: Myanmar to the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea