A lot of people don’t realize that our flying foxes don’t actually chew and eat their fruit. Instead they will chew the fruit, swallow the juice and spit out the pulp into what we call a spat. This is why you will see bats in our videos chewing for far longer than you would expect them to as they eat a piece of fruit. They aren’t chewing it just to be able to swallow it like we would; they are chewing and crushing the fruit to get all of the juice out. They have very flexible cheeks like a chipm