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 See Live Bats on Exhibit
(All information has been provided by the institutions named. Please contact the institution to verify the accuracy of their information before visiting. BCI is not responsible for inaccuracies.) Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park: Egyptian fruit bat colony Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo has a group of Rodrigues Island fruit bats in free flight in Australia House and a group of vampire bats in the Coast exhibit San Diego Zoo Safari Park currently has 5 male and 8 female Rodrigues Fruit bats and are expecting pups very soon
Memphis Zoo in Memphis, Tennessee, has Rousettus bats, Seba's Short-tailed bats, Vampire bats, and Egyptian fruit bats Taipei Zoo, Taiwan: Bats have been found to live in several areas of the zoo, including the zoo's forests, bamboo groves, underground tunnels and culverts, and bat houses. There are 10 bat species found in Taipei Zoo belonging to 3 families and 8 genera: Formosan greater horseshoe bat Rhinolophus formosae, Formosan lesser horseshoe bat Rhinolophus monoceros, Formosan leaf-nosed bat Hipposideros armiger terasensis, Horikawa's brown bat Eptesicus serotinus horikawai, Watase's myotis Myotis ruforniger watasei, Japanese pipistrelle Pipistrellus abramus, Formosan woolly bat Kerivoula sp., Taiwanese long-tailed myotis Myotis sp., Formosan tube-nosed bat Murina puta, Schreibers's long-fingered bat Miniopterus schreibersii. Visit their website here. Mesker Park Zoo: Pallas’s Long-Tongued bats – Glossophaga soricina, Egyptian Fruit Bats – Rousettus aegyptiacus, and Jamaican Fruit Bats - Artibeus jamaicensis Zoo New England, Franklin Park Zoo: straw-colored fruit bats & ruwenzori fruit bats
Zoo New England, Stone Zoo: seba's bats Indianapolis Zoo: 18 African Straw-coloured Fruit Bats (Eidolon helvum) and 24 Small Flying Foxes (Pteropus hypomelanus) Louisville Zoo: 40 Vampire Bats and 11 Rodrigues Fruit Bats |
    
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| Last Updated: Thursday, 25 October 2012 |
