Fruit Bats & Fruit Bat Cave do not actually only eat fruits like the name suggests. They eat things from Nectar, Leaves, Sap and pollen. When eating the fruits, they only squeeze the juice out of the fruit and throw away most of the rest of the residues.
They always chew the fruit and press it to the roof of its mouth; they suck the juice out and then spit the rest of the fruit. The spit will be of the marshy remainder of the fruit.
The fruit bat cave is located in the Makoa Farm under the water fall of the Makoa river. There are to colonies of the “Mountain Fruit Bats” here that you can visit.
The cave also has a large number of birds and monkeys.
About Kilimanjaro Mountain in Tanzania
The Kilimanjaro National park is one of the most visited park and one of the oldest in Tanzania. It is home to the tallest mountain in Africa and the tallest free standing mountain in the world.
The Kilimanjaro is basically not like most of the other national Parks in the northern circuit that attract tourist just to see wildlife and do game drives. People flock this national park to climb the tallest mountain in Africa.
You don’t expect game drives here as the park is basically a mountain. There is however some wildlife that you can see here but most people pay attention to the mountain which is also a UNESCO world heritage site and is also on the list of the wonders of Africa.
The park is generally about 50 Kilometers from Moshi town which is the largest nearby town and the nearby airport is Kilimanjaro international Airport which is in Arusha. This park covers an area of about 650 square kilometers.
The park just like all the other parks in Tanzania is generally managed by the Tanzania National Parks Authority. The park attracts over 40,000 hikers annually. Apart from the hiking, there is wildlife that people can explore.
One of the special species of animals you can find here on the Kilimanjaro national park is the Cape buffalo. The park has a variety of vegetation types that you can explore more so while you hike the Kilimanjaro Mountain.
The vegetation types include: Cultivation zones, Moorland, Montane forests and the Alpine or arid vegetation.
Some of the unmentioned wonders that are over shadowed by the fact that the Kilimanjaro is the Tallest Mountain in the world are the presence of Tarakia and Namwai Rivers.
The mountain basically has very many rodents and the most notable one being the Four-Striped Mouse. Other notable wildlife is the African bush Elephants, grey duikers, blue monkeys and the Black and white colubus monkeys.
You will rarely find all this wildlife on the trail. Since they are shy more so the snake species on the Kilimanjaro.
The Kilimanjaro Mountain basically stands at an elevation of about 5,890 meters above sea level.
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