Seriously, I'm absolutely amazed by this. There's a couple of bats flying around the garden now and I always presumed that fruit bats just looked the same as those repulsive vampire bats but without the teeth.
So I googled it and was amazed to find out that some of them look like cute little dogs with wings or something:
http://www.longgrasssystems.com.au/Images/FlyingFox.jpg
Who else knew this?
I'm calling the bats we get in the UK fruit bats,
even though they eat insects, not fruit.
Why is no one amazed?
...
Its the beggining of speciation my friend. Different environmental pressures select for different "demes" or groups of bats, with particular character traits suiting their locales. Over time, theyll follow different evoloutionary paths and will not be able to reproduce with each other.
Um
Yeah, fruit bats are very different, but we don't get them in the UK... Neither do we get vampire bats.
http://www.worlddeer.org/britishbats/home.html
Our bats are really small, the biggest we get are probably about the size of a hamster. They're actually quite cute though, I did some bat handling in yorkshire a few months back, look!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=38983283&l=c4ffe&id=199707443
It looks lovely
but I don't think it was too pleased in your hand
I have done
some bat detecting with them ace contraptions that pic up the sound I love doin that.
I have also been up some huge ladders to check on a roost too.
Yeah for some reason
I thought the bats we get here were called fruit bats.
the second one
is SO NICE
you probibly saw a pipistrelle bat
there are loadsa diffrent kinds and they look very diffrent from each other in some cases anyway.
pipistrelle bat is the most common in the UK, there are lotsa others but non as huge as those ones you have pictures of.
Loadsa bats are well cute and little awwwwwww
I actually have a pet Fruit Bat.
At the moment, I'm obsessed by Bats and Owls.
Bats & Owls
are ace. I had a Barn Owl fly next to my car along a stright once that was brilliant.
Any nocturnal animals are brilliant
Anything that ties into the night is fantastic, really...........that includes rape, prostitution and train surfing.
thats a tennis tacket
that you keep hitting apples with...
Is the tennis tacket...
...a distant relation to the more commonly identified tennis racket?
It is part of the
lesser spotted tacketus familius I'm led to believe.
^this
These lads are eating tennis...
...and no one is stopping them! The Sun should launch a smear campaign.
They fucking ruined Wimbeldon................the black bastards! (oh shit. Freudian slip).
They don't
A bat got into my art class
at school some years ago. The majority of the females hit the deck or jumped onto the desks and pretty much lost their shit. Teacher sat at desk pondering crossword and cup tea, hugely uninteresed as per. Poor thing was flying in circles clearly distressed by being inside and perhaps also at the state of our 'rustic' charcoal rendering skills.
Janitor somehow caught it in a bucket and released it back into the suburban wilds.
Our HE teacher and ALL of the girls ran out of the room
We tried to catch it. Good times
Was this the same bat?
Was it like that bloke from Pop Idol who did anti-drug assemblies? Just touring round schools in the region, upsetting art classes?
It might have been
but I'm not sure if bats can fly medium distances like Derry-Glasgow. Perhaps it stowed away aboard a Ryanair.
Do they do art classes on planes?
Only
in business class or better. They have the room to make bold, sweeping strokes in there you see.