Thailand 1821 Current Status: Some pteropus [flying foxes] species are endangered.
Finlayson, George, The Mission to Siam, and Hué the Capital of Cochin China, in the Years 1821-2, John Murray, London, 1826, p. 9.
After we had proceeded some way through it, our notice was attracted by the chirping of numerous animals. We discovered this to proceed from a multitude of large bats, Pteropus edulis, suspended from a flowering specimen of Borassus. We brought down four of them.
