young modern.

Those are probably not faneekees but pururut bats or better known as plying poxes, my dear. You used to see a lot of them in Boracay until the Japs came and thought that they had some aphrodisiac qualities and started eating them as pulutan with their beer.

Megabats are large bats that navigate by sight and smell and feed on plant products. They can be found in Africa, the Middle East, Southern Asia, Australia and many islands. In Australia there are 12 megabat species. These include flying-foxes, tube-nosed fruit bats and blossom bats. Of the 8 species of flying-fox there are four widespread species occurring on the mainland of Australia. These are the Black, the Spectacled, the Grey-headed and the Little Red Flying-foxes. Flying-foxes are sometimes called fruit bats but many of them eat parts of plants other than fruit, especially pollen and nectar.

Flying-fox numbers in a camp increase and decrease throughout the year, depending on the availability of food. The flowering of many species occurs irregularly in different areas and different times of the year, governed mainly by variations in weather. Radio-tracking of grey-headed flying-foxes found that in 1990 one moved from Grafton to feed on the flowers of spotted gum near Narooma - about 800 km south and another flew from Lismore to Bundaberg in Queensland, about 400 km to feed on lemon-scented gum. Hand-reared juvenile flying-foxes were tracked between Gordon, Sydney Botanic Gardens and Cabramatta Creek and some found 310 km north and 279 km south in April and May. vi A minimum distance of 978 km was recorded when one was marked on the thumb by a numbered band and released in Lismore on 31/8/91 and was reported electrocuted at Bombala on 12/2/92. By tracking a few individual flying-foxes by satellite it has been found that individuals travel great distances, for example, one moved from Melbourne to Mallacoota then north along the coast, stopping at Ulladulla and Jamberoo, then to Sydney, where it moved between several more camps. Natural disasters such as the high temperatures, over 40 C, and low humidity which occurred in Sydney in January 2002, killed thousands of flying-foxes of all ages.

Some Aussies even hand rear them. Why, I do not know :p I agree you look happy and sound great :)

thank you for the informative and lengthy comment on bats, tito butch.

As you might haveknown, I have had a fascination for bats since I was a child.

Tita Lors, I don't know if I'm happy or not. Bahala na :-)

Oh, get well soon Miss Ala.

You should see the bats in Parramatta Park - ang dami!!!! And they are soooooo noisy!

I like bats haha