Editing Megabat (section)

===Food===
{{Main|Bat as food|Pteropus#Food}}
Megabats are killed and eaten as [[bushmeat]] throughout their range. Bats are consumed extensively throughout Asia, as well as in islands of the West Indian Ocean and the Pacific, where ''Pteropus'' species are heavily hunted. In continental Africa where no ''Pteropus'' species live, the straw-colored fruit bat, the region's largest megabat, is a preferred hunting target.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1017/s0030605308000938|title=Bats as bushmeat: A global review|journal=[[Oryx (journal)|Oryx]]|volume=43|issue=2|page=217|year=2009|last1=Mickleburgh|first1=S.|last2=Waylen|first2=K.|last3=Racey|first3=P.|s2cid=85261295|doi-access=free}}</ref>

In Guam, consumption of the Mariana fruit bat exposes locals to the [[neurotoxin]] [[beta-Methylamino-L-alanine]] (BMAA) which may later lead to [[Neurodegeneration|neurodegenerative diseases]]. BMAA may become particularly [[Biomagnification|biomagnified]] in humans who consume flying foxes; flying foxes are exposed to BMAA by eating [[cycad]] fruits.<ref name="Banack 2006">{{cite journal|doi=10.1016/j.jep.2005.12.032|pmid=16457975|title=Neurotoxic flying foxes as dietary items for the Chamorro people, Marianas Islands|journal=[[Journal of Ethnopharmacology]]|volume=106|issue=1|pages=97–104|year=2006|last1=Banack|first1=S. A. |last2=Murch|first2=S. J.|last3=Cox|first3=P. A.}}</ref><ref name="Cox 2016" >{{cite journal | last1 = Cox| first1= P.| last2= Davis| first2= D.| last3= Mash| first3= D.| last4= Metcalf| first4= J. S.| last5= Banack| first5= S. A. | year = 2016 | title = Dietary exposure to an environmental toxin triggers neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid deposits in the brain |journal= Proceedings of the Royal Society B |volume =  283| issue = 3 | doi = 10.1098/rspb.2015.2397|  pages=1–10 | pmid=26791617 | pmc=4795023}}</ref><ref name=Holtcamp>{{cite journal | last1 = Holtcamp| first1= W. | year = 2012 | title = The emerging science of BMAA: do cyanobacteria contribute to neurodegenerative disease? | journal = [[Environmental Health Perspectives]] | volume = 120| issue = 1823 | doi = 10.1289/ehp.120-a110 | pmid=22382274 | pmc=3295368 | pages=a110–a116}}</ref>