![This bat species may be the source of the Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa | Science | AAAS This bat species may be the source of the Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa | Science | AAAS](https://www.science.org/do/10.1126/science.aaw7864/abs/mineopterus-inflatus_1280x720.jpg)
This bat species may be the source of the Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa | Science | AAAS
![Northumberland zoo welcomes world's third captive population of endangered 'mega-bat' species | ITV News Tyne Tees Northumberland zoo welcomes world's third captive population of endangered 'mega-bat' species | ITV News Tyne Tees](https://images.ctfassets.net/pjshm78m9jt4/6QwRVwK7Wb6xEZdLn0cxL5/98dd8d9a6eb29204e35cf9387a577b81/Screenshot_2023-01-03_at_11.29.36.png)
Northumberland zoo welcomes world's third captive population of endangered 'mega-bat' species | ITV News Tyne Tees
Jared Polis - And the bat of the day is.... Buettikofer's epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus büttikoferi). One of the largest species of bats, they can be found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea,
![Showing the scientific classification of fruit eating bat (Eidolon helvum) | Download Scientific Diagram Showing the scientific classification of fruit eating bat (Eidolon helvum) | Download Scientific Diagram](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228617845/figure/tbl2/AS:822535025348609@1573119040586/Showing-the-scientific-classification-of-fruit-eating-bat-Eidolon-helvum.png)
Showing the scientific classification of fruit eating bat (Eidolon helvum) | Download Scientific Diagram
![Fruit bats are the only bats that can't use echolocation. Now we're closer to knowing why | UNSW Newsroom Fruit bats are the only bats that can't use echolocation. Now we're closer to knowing why | UNSW Newsroom](https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/210308_bat_tc_1.jpg)