While driving around the other day, we spotted a somewhat creepy, somewhat surreal, but nonetheless beautiful sight. Several large trees loaded with bats. These bats were huge. They are a local fruit bat. Many indigenous folks hunt and eat the bat. Regardless, you don’t see this in the States.
Flying squirrel size.
Hanging out.
Flying solo.
Bat art.
Family tree.
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WOW 🙂
Thanks.
Relieved that we DON’T see this in the states!
Ha. Me too.
Your bats caught my eye. Here in the northeast US the brown bat has a fungal disease and numbers are declining which is very worrisome. I had one in my house recently and had to capture it. The first thing I did was to put on a hat because of the old wives tale that they can get tangled in your hair. I knew it was a myth but didn’t want to take any chances!
Oh. That reminds me of an episode of “the office” where they trap the bat in the woman’s head.
for a second I thought there was only one bat and the rest were leaves 😮
Ha. Yes. Lots of bats.
Flying foxes are very cool. I’m glad you were introduced and shared it with others.
Thanks.
Reblogged this on Linda's wildlife garden and commented:
awesome
Thanks for the reblog.
your welcome
Your shot of the flying bat is superb!
Thank you!
Great Shots. We call these creatures as Flying Fox. Seemingly we have the same wildlife. I had just posted several days ago. Thank you for sharing. 🙂
Thank you!
We certainly don’t see that many together in the States. Unusual scene.
And that big.
I can tolerate them in a tree but if they came flying at me I would probably freak out!
Indeed.
My eyes nearly fell out my sockets! I was just scrolling through my reader and saw your blog name and just glanced at the picture and then i read the little paragraph and i was like bats? So i clicked over to your blog and really looked and i wished i didn’t. Thoroughly creeped out lol.
Yes. They are big suckers. They will bite too if you mess with them.
totally cool!
Thanks.
Creepily fascinating.
Agree Kami. 🙂
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