..........................................................................................................................................ii Preface...........................................................................................................................................iii Acknowledgements...................................................................................................................... iv List of Tables..............................................................................................................................viii List of Figures............................................................................................................................ viii Chapter 1: The Importance of Natural Forests to Endemic Terrestrial Fauna in the Philippines............................................................................................................1 Chapter 2: A Dietary Study of Two Threatened Co Roosting Flying Foxes (Megachiroptera), Subic Bay, Philippines......................................................6 Introduction..................................................................................................................... 6 Study objectives............................................................................................................. 9 Study area........................................................................................................................ 9 Study species................................................................................................................... 17 Methods........................................................................................................................... 20 Results..............................................................................................................................25 Discussion....................................................................................................................... 32 Conservation implications............................................................................................47 Methodological considerations.................................................................................... 62 Chapters: Conclusions.............................................................................................................. 74 Literature cited.............................................................................................................................78