Bat as food

Paniki prepared with fruit bat meat cooked in spicy rica green chili pepper. A Minahasan dish. Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Bats as food are eaten by people in some areas of North America,[1] Asia, Africa, Pacific Rim countries,[2] and some other cultures, including the United States, China,[3] Vietnam, the Seychelles, the Philippines,[4][5][6] Indonesia,[7] Palau, Thailand,[8] and Guam.[9][10] Half the megabat (fruit bat) species are hunted for food but only eight percent of the insectivorous bat species are.[11] In Guam, Mariana fruit bats (Pteropus mariannus) are considered a delicacy.[12][13]

  1. ^ Simmons-Duffin, Selena (7 August 2012). "On The Road In Florida: Hard Times, Politics And Smoked Bat : It's All Politics : NPR". NPR.
  2. ^ White, William B.; Culver, David C.; Pipan, Tanja (2019). Encyclopedia of Caves. Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-814125-0.
  3. ^ Mildenstein, T.; Tanshi, I.; Racey, P. A. (2016). "Exploitation of Bats for Bushmeat and Medicine". Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World. Springer. p. 327. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25220-9_12. ISBN 978-3-319-25218-6. S2CID 130038936. Bats are not specifically protected in China and many species are eaten, especially in southern China, where bats are found regularly in markets (Mickleburgh et al. 2009) (Table 12.1, Appendix). Requests from international agencies following the SARS outbreak, (which resulted in several hundred human deaths) that wildlife legislation be introduced in China prohibiting inter alia hunting and sale of bats have been ignored.
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  5. ^ "Eating Bats Is Necessary in Parts of the Philippines". Esquire Magazine. 5 February 2020.
  6. ^ "10 EXOTIC FILIPINO FOODS YOU HAVE TO SEE TO BELIEVE, Number 7. Filipinos eating Fruit Bat Stew". staffvirtual.com. 20 November 2020.
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  8. ^ Suwannarong, Kanokwan; Schuler, Sidney (22 January 2016). "Bat consumption in Thailand". Infection Ecology & Epidemiology. 6 (1): 29941. Bibcode:2016InfEE...629941S. doi:10.3402/iee.v6.29941. ISSN 2000-8686. PMC 4724787. PMID 26806167.
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