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Bonin flying foxes give birth in early summer.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Bonin flying fox
- Scientific name
- Pteropus pselaphon
- Japanese name
- オガサワラオオコウモリ
- Group
- Land mammals
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Pteropodidae
- Genus
- Pteropus
This flying fox lives nowhere but the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands. It chews fruit and swallows just the juice.
It is generally active at night and rests by day hanging from trees in the forest, alone or in groups.
How the Bonin flying fox lives
Besides fruit, they also eat flower nectar and leaves. In winter, they form communal roosts for breeding.
環境省Basic data
- Size
- Head and body length: 20–25 cmWingspan: 80 cm上野動物園
- Active
- At night (nocturnal)環境省
- Diet
- Fruit, nectar, and leaves上野動物園
- Range
- Ogasawara Islands, Japan上野動物園
- Conservation status in Japan
- Endangered (EN)Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Red List 2020
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- オガサワラオオコウモリ
- 简体中文
- 小笠原狐蝠
- 繁體中文
- 小笠原狐蝠
- 한국어
- 보닌날여우박쥐
- Deutsch
- Bonin-Flughund
- Italiano
- Volpe volante delle Bonin
- Русский
- Бонинская летучая лисица
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 上野動物園 — オガサワラオオコウモリChecked: 2026-11-03
- 環境省 — オガサワラオオコウモリ（保護増殖事業）Checked: 2026-11-03
- Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Red List 2020Checked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
The conservation status in Japan is the category in the Red Lists of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, which assess the risk of extinction for wild animals in Japan.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
Report a mistakeWhen you meet the Bonin flying fox, look for this
- You may see it spit out fruit seeds and fibers together.
Animals do different things from day to day, so you may not always see this.
上野動物園EXHIBIT INFORMATION
Places that keep or show the Bonin flying fox
Zoos, aquariums and other places whose official websites say they keep or show this animal.
Displays can change with the animals’ health and the seasons. Check each facility’s official website before you go.
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