Giant Bats?

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The fruit bat that is called Flying Fox is hardly a candidate for what has caused reports of giant pterosaurs in tropical countries in the Southwest Pacific. Many descriptions shoot down the fruit-bat theory: extremely long tails, head crests, and fish-eating; if those were not enough, what fruit bat glows brightly at night? No, the reports are not from misidentifications of some big bat.