batty
if you're a friend o' mind you'll know i'm batty for bats. so i want to share perhaps one of my alltime favorite images ever. thanks every so much to hell hell for introducing this to me. imagine, a zombie me in bed, rheumy-eyed while i groggily check my phone (it's my routine now), and this being the first thing i get in my email. what a great way to wake me up!
big props to anyone who can track down any information regarding this photo. i've tried a variety of google search terms but with no luck. hellen found it on this site but there's no backstory or context whatsoever.
i wish i were the guy holding this adorable creature.
ps – this picture inspired a silly theme for a series of drawings i’d like to do if i ever get the time
April 18th, 2009 at 1:10 am
he’s trying to look all diabolical with those veiny and vicious looking wings! how can anything look that threatening when being groomed with a toofbrush?
April 19th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
TOO CUTE. LOOK AT IT’S BIG EYES!
April 20th, 2009 at 1:44 am
Fran will tell you that I’ve had a real connection with a fruit bat before.
April 20th, 2009 at 2:47 am
thanks everyone for commenting!
@mich: yeah, he’s not getting very far with the diabolical act when his face is so disarmingly cute
@christina: I KNOW
@derek: does this have something to do with australia by any chance?
August 12th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
okay so I found the image on this hygiene & toileting page from “the new updated second edition handbook for wildlife carers
involved in the care of orphaned baby, and the rescue, rehabilitation,
and release of adult flying-foxes in Australia
by dave pinson”
http://www.stickeebatz.com/HTML/hygiene%20&%20toileting.htm
The image basically illustrates how to train an orphaned grey-headed flying fox to groom itself.
the photo itself is credited to a “Mandi Griffith”, who, as far as I can tell, is an Australian zookeeper who wrote the “Grey-headed Flying Fox Husbandry Manual”.
So there you have it!