Lesser Short-nosed Fruit Bat
Lesser Short-nosed Fruit BatLesser Short-nosed Fruit BatLesser Short-nosed Fruit BatLesser Short-nosed Fruit Bat

Lesser Short-nosed Fruit Bat

Cynopterus brachyotis

Least ConcernNear ThreatenedVulnerableEndangeredCritically Endangered
Insufficient data
overall probability at Kaeng Krachan National Park
1 Verified records at Kaeng Krachan National Park
🌅 Crepuscular When it's active at dawn and dusk

The lesser short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) is a species of megabat within the family Pteropodidae. It is a small bat that lives in South Asia and Southeast Asia. It weighs between 21 and 32 grams (0.74 and 1.13 oz), and measures 70 to 127 millimetres (2.8 to 5.0 in). It occurs in many types of habitat, but most frequently in disturbed forest, including lower montane forest and tropical lowland rain forest, plus gardens, mangroves, and vegetation on beaches. Wikipedia →

Closest Relatives at Kaeng Krachan National Park

Greater Short-nosed Fruit Bat
LC

Greater Short-nosed Fruit Bat

☀️ Diurnal Mammal

Cynopterus sphinx

Insufficient data
Ratanaworabhan's Fruit Bat
LC

Ratanaworabhan's Fruit Bat

Mammal

Megaerops niphanae

Insufficient data
Hardwicke's woolly bat
LC

Hardwicke's woolly bat

Mammal

Kerivoula hardwickii

5–10% · With luck
Lesser false vampire bat
LC

Lesser false vampire bat

🌅 Crepuscular Mammal

Megaderma spasma

5–10% · With luck
Woolly Horseshoe Bat
LC

Woolly Horseshoe Bat

🌅 Crepuscular Mammal

Rhinolophus luctus

5–10% · With luck
Malayan Slit-faced Bat
NT

Malayan Slit-faced Bat

Mammal

Nycteris tragata

5–10% · With luck
🐒 No photo available
LC

Pearson's Horseshoe Bat

Mammal

Rhinolophus pearsonii

Insufficient data
Tail-less Leaf-nosed Bat
NT Endemic

Tail-less Leaf-nosed Bat

Mammal

Coelops frithii

Insufficient data
Great Roundleaf Bat
LC Endemic

Great Roundleaf Bat

Mammal

Hipposideros armiger

Insufficient data

📅 Monthly Probability

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Fewer than 5 records of Lesser Short-nosed Fruit Bat at Kaeng Krachan National Park — not enough to chart months honestly.

🌅 When They're Spotted

Most active at dawn and dusk · across all parks (global)

🌅Crepuscular
☀️🌙🌙12am6am12pm6pm12am

Global Distribution

Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.

where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is)  ·  parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Probability
1 Way Kambas National Park 🇮🇩 Indonesia
Insufficient data
2 Cat Tien National Park 🇻🇳 Vietnam
Insufficient data
3 Danum Valley Conservation Area 🇲🇾 Malaysia
Insufficient data
4 Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary 🇲🇾 Malaysia
Insufficient data
5 Khao Sok National Park 🇹🇭 Thailand
Insufficient data
6 Kaeng Krachan National Park 🇹🇭 Thailand
Insufficient data
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