| Biological classification: |
- kingdom: Animalia
- - phylum: Chordata
- -- class: Mammalia
- --- order: Chiroptera
- ---- family: Pteropodidae
- ----- species: Epomophorus gambianus
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| Characteristics: | herbivore; body-length: 12-25cm; wingspan: 50cm; the fur is greyish brown to nearly white in colour; the face appears dog-like with the long snout and the simple ears, at the base of which are a white marks; the males are larger and have characteristic patches of white fur on the shoulders; |
| Countries: |
- BW
- Botswana
- MZ
- Mozambique
- ZA
- South Africa
- ZW
- Zimbabwe
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| Ecoregions: |
- AT0717
- Southern Africa bushveld
- AT0725
- Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
- AT0726
- Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands
- AT0907
- Zambezian flooded grasslands
- AT1004
- Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
- AT1012
- Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets
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| References: | Cillié 1997: 207 |
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