Kalong

As you know, Kalong is an active animal at night. Experts describe it as a member of the bat or in scientific language as "Chiroptera" which belongs to the family group Pteropus Pteropodidae, the only member of the Megachiroptera family. although scientifically this is not entirely appropriate, because not all bats are bats. Bats mainly refer to large fruit-eating bats. **

The largest fruit bats, as well as the largest bats, are Pteropus vampyrus sugar cane which weigh 1,500 grams, and have a wingspan of 1,700 mm.

**  In a book (Kalong and its habitat: 2000) explain that Based on several scientific sources, about 18 tribes, around 192 genera and 977 species of bats in the world. Bats are flying mammals from the Chiroptera order, with two sub-divisions such as the **

"old world fruit bat" Megachiroptera and the "echolocating bat" Mikrochiroptera.

**  When a forest is present, the presence of this animal is important for human life because it has an ecological role as a transmitter of fruit seeds and as an economic pollination of plant flowers. Because of the privilege given to sustainable world tropical forests, especially in Indonesia, these bat species also receive conservation priorities, but unfortunately many people often hunt for their existence.  With rampant hunting in certain places, one solution to saving animals from extinction such as captured wildlife makes captivity activities in breeding them from illegal hunting to increase the population while maintaining their purity, so that their preservation in nature can be done. Besides that, especially Kalong Kapuak can be very rushed by poachers who deliberately kill and take it for certain needs. Thus some brief reviews about Kalong may be useful.