A friend who just visited Australia was telling me about "flying foxes" last night. Giant bats! Sounded terribly frightening! What's next, Australia, egg laying mammals with duck bills and a crippling poison? Miniature spiders with deadly venom? Floating sacks of deadly jelly? Poison centipedes of unusual size?
But the "flying foxes" are actually really cute. They're just puppies with wings. They don't have echolocation. They basically have the diet of bees. Well, big bees, anyway (and not the crazy Australian bees).
(ht for general idea to Margafret)
