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T1 DISTRIBUTION OF INDIAN FLYING FOX PTEROPUS GIGANTEUS BRÜNNICH, 1782 IN FOUR DISTRICTS OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA
A1 M. Salim
A1 M. Mahmood-ul-Hassan
JF Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences
JO JAPS
SN 1018-7081
VO 25
IS 3
SP 176
OP 179
YR 2015
FD 2015/06/01
DO DOI NA
AB The Indian flying fox Pteropus giganteus (Brünnich, 1782) is Indomalayan in distribution. Present study documents its range extension towards west of the Indus in Pakistan. Five colonies of the Indian flying foxes were recorded in four districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) that form eastern boundary of Palaearctic region. The bats preferred to roost on Populus nigra (100%), Eucalyptus globulus (88.8%), Dalbergia sisso (76.0%) and Platanus orientalis (48.4%). Population size varied from June (n = 5478) to December (n = 912). from Peshawar and Charsadda districts (Mahmood-ul-
K1 Indo-Malayan, Indus, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, flying fox
PB Pakistan Agricultural Scientists Forum
LK https://thejaps.org.pk/AbstractView.aspx?mid=2015-JAPS-626