Wholesale Long-tongued fruit bat Preserved Bat (Macroglossus minimus) with wings spread measuring approximately 9 inches long. The long-tongued fruit bat has a reddish-brown coloring with relatively long hair compared to the other species.  The hair on the abdomen is a lighter color, and a dark brown stripe runs bilaterally down the top of the head and back.  Long-tongued bats feeds by first landing on a flower and then using its long tongue to extract nectar or pollen from the flower.  Long-tongued fruit bats, like many other pteropodids, have large eyes, and they orient visually.  They do not use echolocation to locate their food source as do families in the suborder Microchiroptera.