Some cultivated fruit plantations might not need the free services of this pollinator. But if in the long term the good quality of cultivated fruits is to be guaranteed, then they will still have to rely on the occasional improvement from wild varieties. It is thus that the bat remains an animal of crucial importance for the fruit harvest of Southeast Asia.
即使一些人工果園不需要免費的媒介，但保證人工品種能長期維持優良品質，則必需靠大量保存野生品種來不時改良，因此蝙蝠至今仍是「東南亞果農豐收的關鍵生物」。