Their diet mainly consists of nectar and fruit, making them important for pollination and seed dispersal in their environment.

Syconycteris bats play an especially important role as pollinators for flowers that require an explosive opening such as Mucuna macrocarpa.

Syconycteris bats are primary pollinators as the pollen of explosively opened flowers sticks to their fur.

[3] Like closely related Macroglossus species, their vocalizations consist of a long series of similar trill like bursts with high repetition rate and small changes in dominant frequency.

Four mitochondrial and one nuclear gene representing 43 species including exemplars from seven cynopterine genera.