31. Why do flying foxes sometimes eat fruit

from cultivated fruit trees?

A. They prefer eating cultivated fruit to

wild fruit.

B. They are better able to spread pollen

from cultivated fruit trees.

C. The number of wild fruit trees has

decreased.

D. Cultivated fruit trees are completely

dependent on bats for pollination.

E. Declining mosquito populations can no

longer feed the bats.

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Biology

Nickolas Fuller

1 April, 21:55

31. Why do flying foxes sometimes eat fruit

from cultivated fruit trees?

A. They prefer eating cultivated fruit to

wild fruit.

B. They are better able to spread pollen

from cultivated fruit trees.

C. The number of wild fruit trees has

decreased.

D. Cultivated fruit trees are completely

dependent on bats for pollination.

E. Declining mosquito populations can no

longer feed the bats.

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Jaiden Briggs · Answer 1

Flying foxes sometimes eat fruit from cultivated fruit trees because C. the number of wild fruit trees has decreased.

Since there are no wild trees for flying foxes to eat from, they have to find other means of survival - and so they started eating from cultivated fruit trees.