Giant golden-crowned flying fox species are located. Southeast Asia ultimately faces a widespread trend in fruit bat hunting, the world’s highest amount of natural habitat loss along with other factors that endanger the lives of the giant golden-crown flying fox. The hunt for this species is largely due to the demand for their meat and pelts. In addition to being hunted for their meat and pelts, the golden flying fox has also been targeted as a pest for the destruction of fruit crops. The giant golden-crowned flying fox is threatened by deforestation and has completely disappeared from many islands in the Philippines, such as
Indian flying fox a new name for a species that had already been described—"Vespertilio vampyrus" which is now "Pteropus vampyrus" (the large flying fox). Mlíkovský made several points in his argument, all with a foundation in the nomenclature rule known as Principle of Priority. The Principle of Priority posits that the first formal, published scientific name given to a species shall be the name that is used. Because Brünnich was attempting to rename the large flying fox in his 1782 publication, his name should not apply to either the large or the Indian flying fox—an older name was in existence, and therefore the