Summary

Flying foxes are the biggest bats in the world; they look like German shepherd puppies with 5-foot (1.5-meter) wingspans. But Madagascar's flying foxes are shrinking. In a new study published in the Journal of Mammalogy , scientists showed that these giant fruit bats have been getting smaller over the past several decades, a change that the researchers suspect is related to an increase in large-scale commercial hunting.

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