In the evening, the bats leave their roosting sites, flying as far as 30 kilometres away to feed on fruit, particularly the fruits of fig (Ficus) trees. The golden-capped fruit bat navigates its way around the forest and locates food using its good vision, without utilizing echolocation as many other bat species do.
1 The claim for reparations is not against white Americans or even individual Americans. 2  It is a claim against American government and society, which has continued from the time of slavery. 3  As all members of society share in society's benefits, they also must share the burdens in the form of taxation.
As this paper regards the federal government's support for slavery and Jim Crow as part of a continuing history of wrongs, it refers to the morally required rectification not as reparations, which are usually thought of as addressing past wrongs, but under the broader heading of corrective justice.