Diet Overlap

Cynopterus sphinx (greater short-nosed fruit bat)
Pteropus medius (Indian flying fox)

Common Diet

Annona squamosa (sugar apple)
Ficus benghalensis (Indian banyan)
Ficus benjamina (weeping fig)
Ficus minahassae (clustertree)
Ficus religiosa (peepul tree)
Ficus thonningii (Chinese banyan)
Mangifera indica (mango)
Manilkara zapota (sapodilla)
Musa paradisiaca (Banana)
Terminalia catappa (india almond)

Common Habitat

Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests
Central Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests
Chhota-Nagpur dry deciduous forests
Chin Hills-Arakan Yoma montane forests
Deccan thorn scrub forests
East Deccan dry-evergreen forests
Eastern highlands moist deciduous forests
Eravikulam National Park
Goadavari-Krishna mangroves
Himalaya
Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests
Indo-Burma
Indravati Tiger Reserve
Indus River Delta-Arabian Sea mangroves
Irrawaddy dry forests
Irrawaddy freshwater swamp forests
Irrawaddy moist deciduous forests
Kanha Tiger Reserve
Khathiar-Gir dry deciduous forests
Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
Malabar Coast moist forests
Manas National Park
Meghalaya subtropical forests
Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests
Myanmar Coast mangroves
Myanmar coastal rain forests
Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests
Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve
North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests
North Western Ghats montane rain forests
Northeast India-Myanmar pine forests
Northern dry deciduous forests
Northwestern thorn scrub forests
Orissa semi-evergreen forests
Palamau Tiger Reserve
Rann of Kutch seasonal salt marsh
Sanjay Gandhi National Park
South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests
South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests
South Western Ghats montane rain forests
Southern Asia
Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests
Sri Lanka lowland rain forests
Sri Lanka montane rain forests
Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests
Sundarbans mangroves
Sunderban
Tansa Wildlife Sanctuary
Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands
Thar desert
Upper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Temporal patterns of resource use by the short-nosed fruit bat, Cynopterus sphinx (Megachiroptera: Pteropodidae), Elangovan, V | Marimuthu, G | Kunz, TH, Journal of Mammalogy [J. Mammal.]. Vol. 82, no. 1, pp. 161-165. 2001.
♦ 2Sudhakaran, M.R. & P.S. Doss (2012). Food and foraging preferences of three pteropo- did bats in southern India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 4(1): 2295-2303
♦ 3"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
♦ 4Cynopterus sphinx, Jay F. Storz and Thomas H. Kunz, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 613, pp. 1-8 (1999)