The Keast's Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (Nyctimene keasti) is a species of megabat in the Pteropodidae family found in Babar, Tanimbar, and the Kai Islands.
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It was named "Beelzebub" and "demon" because of its coloration and fierce behavior, alluding the use of the term "Beelzebub" as reference to the underworld in Christian texts.
The smaller, brown coloured bat Ussuri Tube-nosed Bat is found in Korea, Russia (Far East and Sakhalin), and Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima and Yakushima).
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In Japan they are called 'tengu komori', after the mythical creature called the Tengu.
The tube is a transparent horizontal pipe which contains a small amount of a fine powder such as cork dust, talc or Lycopodium.
C. b. altitudinis is confined to the highlands of Peninsular Malaysia, from the Cameron Highlands to Gunung Bunga Buah.
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Plants such as bananas, avocados, dates, mangoes, peaches, and Agave tequilana depend on them for seed dispersal.