Kelelawar dipangan dening masarakat ing bagean-bagean ing sawetara tlatah negara Asia, Afrika, lan Pasifik [1] lan budaya, kalebu Vietnam, Seychelles, Indonesia, [2]Palau, Thailand, [3]China, [4] lan Guam . Setengah spesies megabat (bat buah) diburu golek panganan nanging mung wolung persen spesies kelelawar insektivora. [5] Ing Guam, kelelawar woh Mariana ( Pteropus mariannus ) dianggep sabagean wong minangka panganan enak .
Mildenstein, T.; Tanshi, I.; Racey, P. A. (2016). "Exploitation of Bats for Bushmeat and Medicine". Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World. Springer. kc.327. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25220-9_12. ISBN978-3-319-25218-6. Bats are not specifically protected in China and many species are eaten, especially in southern China, where bats are found regularly in markets (Mickleburgh et al. 2009) (Table 12.1, Appendix). Requests from international agencies following the SARS outbreak, (which resulted in several hundred human deaths) that wildlife legislation be introduced in China prohibiting inter alia hunting and sale of bats have been ignored.
Mildenstein, T.; Tanshi, I.; Racey, P. A. (2016). "Exploitation of Bats for Bushmeat and Medicine". Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World. Springer. kc.327. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25220-9_12. ISBN978-3-319-25218-6.