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World’s Largest Bat Species Is the Size of a Human Child
My Modern Met ^ | 23 Mar 2023 | Jessica Stewart

Posted on 03/24/2023 8:54:31 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

Classified as a megabat, these flying foxes can weigh up to three pounds with a wingspan of up to five and a half feet.

Still, anyone would probably jump if they turned the corner and saw this bat snoozing in their garage. Luckily, giant golden-crowned flying foxes really have no interest in humans. Their diet primarily consists of figs and leaves.

...its main predators are large birds of prey like eagles. They are also hunted by reticulated pythons and, unfortunately, humans who use them for their bushmeat. This act, as well as deforestation, are two of

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Gardening; Humor; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: batboy; cryptobiology; flyingfoxes; godsgravesglyphs
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To: DUMBGRUNT
A flying Foxbat? Like this?


21 posted on 03/24/2023 9:09:22 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Gain of Pfunction. Gain of Pfunding. Gain of Pfizer. Now in control of Project Pferitas.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

ICWYDT


22 posted on 03/24/2023 9:11:11 AM PDT by null and void (While our enemies are on a war footing, we are pussyfooting!)
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To: Red Badger; SkyDancer
I like Flying Foxes......................

Me too, I even have a favorite...

23 posted on 03/24/2023 9:13:45 AM PDT by null and void (While our enemies are on a war footing, we are pussyfooting!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT; SkyDancer
Bat signal ping
24 posted on 03/24/2023 9:14:29 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Restless

25 posted on 03/24/2023 9:15:00 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

26 posted on 03/24/2023 9:15:47 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: DUMBGRUNT

27 posted on 03/24/2023 9:16:38 AM PDT by SlipperySlope99
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To: Ezekiel

A goth-metal band


28 posted on 03/24/2023 9:16:44 AM PDT by I-ambush (We watched the moment of defeat, played back over on the video screen. )
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To: DUMBGRUNT
I saw lots of these flying foxes in Australia. They roost in large flocks and create and incredible mess. They also carry a disease which is fatal to horses.

Of course, the Australian government protects them.

29 posted on 03/24/2023 9:16:51 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: RoosterRedux

Unfortunately the bat would not survive in a cage match with a rodent like Fauci.


30 posted on 03/24/2023 9:17:17 AM PDT by George J. Jetso
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To: Magnum44

HA! Beat me to it. It was a huge loss to the world when the Weekly World News went under. And just after I’d recovered from the loss of Art Bell.


31 posted on 03/24/2023 9:19:23 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: I-ambush
A goth-metal band


32 posted on 03/24/2023 9:19:43 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DannyTN; Lazamataz

She seems nice. Would Laz hit it?


33 posted on 03/24/2023 9:21:37 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: George J. Jetso

Probably right.


34 posted on 03/24/2023 9:22:45 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: DUMBGRUNT

They are all over Sydney, Australia. I loved going to the park to watch them when I worked there.


35 posted on 03/24/2023 9:23:30 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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36 posted on 03/24/2023 9:24:15 AM PDT by x
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Came for the thread.


37 posted on 03/24/2023 9:25:40 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: Seruzawa

I’d get oral from her!


38 posted on 03/24/2023 9:27:44 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

DON’T EAT IT!


39 posted on 03/24/2023 9:27:57 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Is it really ‘unfortunate’ that people in the bush eat bat? Come on man?


40 posted on 03/24/2023 9:38:48 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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