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One adult female Bulmer's fruit bat weighed 600 g (1.3 lb). Bulmer's fruit bat is a cave-dweller that occurs in mid-montane forests. Its altitudinal range is at least 1800 to 2400 m (5800–7900 ft). It is probably an obligate frugivore. It occurs in cave-dwelling colonies.
Etymology of the scientific name of Bulmer's fruit bat: genus name ("Aproteles") – "incomplete at the front" (Greek), a reference to the lack of lower incisors; species name ("bulmerae"), for Susan Bulmer, the archaeologist who excavated the site from which the original fossils were recovered (Flannery 1995).
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