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84 Mohammad Naufal Mohammad Shah, Khairul Bariah Mohd Johan, Azuan Roslan, Hasrul
86 Mohammad Naufal Mohammad Shah, Khairul Bariah Mohd Johan, Azuan Roslan, Hasrul Zaman
Zaman Hassan Basri, Elizabeth Pesiu, Muhammad Aidil Zahidin, Mohd Tajuddin Abdullah &
Hassan Basri, Elizabeth Pesiu, Muhammad Aidil Zahidin, Mohd Tajuddin Abdullah & Mohamed Nor
Mohamed Nor Zalipah
Zalipah

and role as a significant seed dispersal agent of C. horsfieldii in Malaysia is still
limited.

From the total captures, only 34 individuals (54 % of the total captures) from all
six species were positive for pollen loads. For each bat species, at least half of the
individuals caught were with pollen loads on their bodies except for C. brachyotis,
in which only 12 individuals (35 % of the total capture of this species) were
positive for pollen load at the time of their capture (Figure 4). A comparison
between the number of samples with and without pollen load however was not
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significantly different as detected by the Ȥ test with Yates’ Correction at p = 0.05
conducted for each bat species except for M. sobrinus in which all individuals
captured were found with pollen load on their bodies.

In total, six pollen types were identified from the total 34 bat individuals with
pollen loads, including four unidentified pollen species (Figure 5). C. brachyotis
and C. horsfieldii were recorded as carrying five and four pollen types
respectively, while the other bat species were with only three pollen types (Table
3). Only the pollen grains of Sonneratia spp. and Type B were observed on all six
pteropodid bat species recorded in this study.